I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.

To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.

Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.

Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.

The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, "Then there's no hope for me, Mum."

I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

Iron helmets will not save/Even heroes from the grave/Good man's blood will drain away/While the wickid win the day.

People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well.

The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage.

Your husband, [Hillary Clinton], signed NAFTA, which was one of the worst things that ever happened to the manufacturing industry.

I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like.

People think of education as something that they can finish.

We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country.

I definitely want kids and I want four kids, for sure. But I need to find a husband first!

There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.