5 Quotes by Michael Gerson

To restrict or legalize abortion, to allow or forbid gay marriage, a legislator would need to write and pass a law, get it signed by the president or a governor, and perhaps override a veto. A Supreme Court justice need only persuade four other people. If he or she is not internally constrained by the authority of a text, he or she is not constrained.

Parenthood offers many lessons in patience and sacrifice. But ultimately, it is a lesson in humility. The very best thing about your life is a short stage in someone else’s story.

The soft bigotry of low expectations.

The NSA is not looking through people’s address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That’s not what the NSA does.

Atheists can be good people; they just have no objective way to judge the conduct of those who are not.