Leon Kass

I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.