Ramesh Ponnuru and others say Obama is a conventional liberal. But conventional liberals don't come out for the release of the Lockerbie bomber. Conventional liberals don't return the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office. Conventional liberals don't block oil drilling in America while subsidizing oil drilling in Brazil.
Whenever a Gujarati or Sikh businessman comes to a Republican event, it begins with an appeal to Jesus Christ. While the Democrats are really good at making the outsider feel at home, the Republicans make little or no effort.
Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.
For me, victory isn't measured by winning in the traditional sense.
We can stay in Afghanistan and stabilize the situation, or we can get out and win, or we can get out and lose.
If you want to understand what is going on in the White House today, you have to begin with Barack Obama.
Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.
Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.
I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist.
Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.
For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They want to know what the benefits of Christianity are, or what's in it for them.
Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.
Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.
Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.
Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.
Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.
I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.
I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.
What I've realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way to tell a riveting story and draw ideas out of that, it's very powerful.
This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.
