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

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.

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

Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?

I do not suggest that you should not have an open mind ... but don't keep your mind so open that your brains fall out.

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.

Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.