America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.

Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."

We are here to help one another along life's journey.

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

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

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

It is ironic that anyone who appeals to religious values today runs the risk of being called 'divisive' or attacked as an enemy of pluralism.