Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.

If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?

Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

For in order for capitalism to work -- in order for it to produce a good and a stable society -- the traditional Christian virtues are essential.

In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.

One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned.

Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.

Time is built entirely on consensus: humans decide that they have linear time, so they do.

I have proven a danger to both myself and those around me when carrying these weapons. I'm extraordinarily clumsy.

You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins. We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage.

I've worked with Ed Bradley, Dan Rather and lots of different local news anchors.

It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs.

There is no moment more precious than the exact moment they are living. And that exact moment has a lot to do with how future moments play out.

There is always time enough in a day to do God's will.

Domestic power structures are shaped in good part by global arrangements.

A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble.