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

Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.

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

People of good character are not all going to come down on the same side of difficult political and social issues. Good people - people of character and moral literacy - can be conservative, and good people can be liberal. We must not permit our disputes over thorny political questions to obscure the obligation we have to offer instruction to all our young people in the area in which we have, as a society, reached a consensus: namely, on the importance of good character, and some of its pervasive particulars.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.

I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose - you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.