"America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated."
"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."
"Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country."
"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."
"I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name."
"I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign."
"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."
"'War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic."
"Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history."
"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."
"Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did."
"A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials."
"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."
