When we were attacked on Sept. 11, we knew the main reason for the attack was that Islamists hated our way of life, our virtues, our freedoms. What we never imagined was that the free press - an institution at the heart of those virtues and freedoms - would be among the first to surrender.

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.

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

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

The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.

True courage is mixed with circumspection, the kind of healthy skepticism that asks, 'Is this the best way to do this?' True cowardice is marked by chronic skepticism, which always says, 'It can't be done.'

I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.