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.

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

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

What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.

A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.

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 have no doubt that the real irritation of those on the religious right is not that their particular creed is not embraced by the schools, but that often their creed is the only one singled out for contempt.