Is military force really the solution to the answers wherever oppression is taking place? Has it worked in Israel? Has it worked in Iraq? Has it worked in any of the places where you get a long-going conflict where it can only be suppressed by force?

Now we have even more damage in the world that we have to somehow attempt to try and correct. And it’s damage that we created. Maybe we made things better in the long run, but for right now, there were a lot of holes in this world to be filled before and now we have even larger work ahead of us.

Christ came 2000 years ago and this America, the Christian nation, the Christian nation is doing this. We can’t come up with anything better? I mean, look at Gandhi, look at MLK, look at what happened in South Africa. It is possible to live and love. It is possible. It is possible to change the world.

The sports ethic in this country I suspect has leaked into the rest of our lives where we have to be number one, we have to come out on top, we have to declare ourselves winners. And unfortunately I think that presents not only the wrong attitude towards the rest of the world but leads us into dangerous territory in many parts of life.

British in India, they started occupying India by saying “We’re just here as traders and we will just leave,” and soon they were all over the place. Living here in the US, we know our country is not going to do that. But that’s us. It’s just like family. We know our family, but it’s the outside world that does not know the family.

I go to church more than one day a week and I do not think this is a just war. . . I think that people, Christians like myself have been very quiet, too quiet. That’s my problem—that I’ve been too quiet.

I would debate [the claim that we're a Christian nation]. We are more Christian now than before 9/11, but when I see what comes out of Hollywood . . . God is behind all of this. Whether we want to accept the idea or not.

This is not a Christian nation. We’re made up of lots of faiths. And so we didn’t attack the Muslims. We attacked Iraq and Saddam Hussein and his Republican Guard.

Why is Franklin Graham taking Bibles over to the Muslims? I can only assume that the reason they’re using their resources, their time, their energies, is that they believe, in short they have faith that their belief is the better belief, or the best belief that’s available. I certainly believe that.

[O]ur system says majority rules. The majority [in Iraq] is Shiite and they don’t want a country, they don’t want a government that separates church and state. They want a Shiite government. What should be the position of the American people towards their majority?

Economics has got nothing to do with God. God sustains the whole world without the dollars, without the dinars, without the rupees. To even talk about it shows our ignorance of God.

People see the way that we live and we live like no other country in the world and then our television commercials, our programs, our movies then portray this and everybody else wants a piece of the action. They also want to live like we do. Well we know that that is a death knell for the earth.

I’m not willing to say that because we have a bigger boat, we’re justified in having that boat.