All religions are sick men's dreams, false - demonstrably false - and pernicious.

Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in the Near East, yet nobody mentions those facts.

We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam.

The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel.

While many Islamic countries pay lip service to the idea of freedom of religion, they don't put up with conversion from Islam to another religion.

Monotheism is in its turn doomed to subtract one more God and become atheism

In Saudi Arabia, among other countries, Muslims are not free to convert to Christianity, and Christians are not free to practice their faith. The Koran is not a rights-respecting document.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.

The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction.

I wish more people would belabor the obvious, and more often.

Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

Hero is he alone who vies with powers supreme!

In your heart of hearts, I believe all of you around this table know what this country needs.

You have to trust the people who work with you and hire, but also listen to as many smart people as you can.

And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.

We are surrounded by data, but starved for insights.

I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do.

There is no need for revenge. Living happily ever after is a sign that you have not let the past beat you.

Certainly, no church should be involved in trying to set the affairs of the nation.

It is terribly important to maintain a national identity in a way that it probably wasn't before.

One accident or terrorist strike involving high-level waste would endanger lives and cause a catastrophe that would leave millions of dollars in damages and take years to clean up