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" I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign. "

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" What does the doctrine of American exceptionalism empower the United States to do? Nothing more than to act better than traditional empires - committed to looting and conquest - have done. So that's American exceptionalism: an exceptionalism based on noble ideas, ideas that it holds itself to even when it falls short of them. "

" Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in the world; Islam is the second. It's spreading in Asia, Africa, and South America. So the world is in a kind of religious revival, and the atheists are totally flummoxed. They thought they were winning, and now they see that they aren't. "

" My wife, Dixie, is evangelical Christian. We met in the Reagan White House, when she was a student intern. We're members of the Horizon Christian Fellowship Church. "

" Young men are obsessed with their dads, and they remain obsessed if the dad is not around. Remember that there was a lot of discussion about how George W. Bush might have invaded Iraq to atone for the failures of his dad. "

" An interesting parallel: MLK was targeted by J. Edgar Hoover, an unsavory character. I was targeted by the equally unsavory B. Hussein Obama. "

" I want to give Michael Moore a run for his money. "

" 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. "

" In the end, of course, Republicans ended slavery and permanently outlawed it through the Thirteenth Amendment. "

" Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency. "

" Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country. "

" Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people. "

" Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich. "

" Republicans passed the Fourteenth Amendment, securing for blacks equal rights under the law, and the Fifteenth Amendment, giving blacks the right to vote, over the Democrats' opposition. "

" America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated. "

" I'm not above the law. No one is. But we don't want to live in a society where Lady Justice has one eye open and winks at her friends and casts the evil eye at her adversaries. When will it stop? "

" O.K., if the desire to knock America off its pedestal, to redistribute American income to other countries, to shrink America's footprint in the world, makes you anti-American, then Obama is in fact anti-American. "

" 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. "

" Other countries have been founded by 'accidents of force.' America is a creation of thought. "

" I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist. "

" Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere. "

" There is a real hunger for information about Obama and a sense that information is not being covered or, in some cases, even being withheld. There is a sense that there are elements of the media that are protective of Obama, that they would rather block a story that is embarassing about Obama than let the American public decide. "

" Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled. "

" I was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, and my neighbor was Michael Novak, a theologian and philosopher who has written about issues like the morality of capitalism and the Christian roots of free markets. It's possible to be fascinated intellectually with the Christian heritage without being devout. "

" Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization. "