The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.

The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result in the complete exclusion of religious beliefs from our public classrooms.

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.

President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.

When you have an individual that is committed to killing someone else, you can`t expect a restraining order or the police to provide 24-hour protection.

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.