I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on a Monday, then switch firmly to the opposite principle on Tuesday if it is to their advantage.

- John Leo

Instead of the traditional emphasis on the sanctity of life, bioethics began to stress the quality of life, meaning that many damaged humans, young and old, don't qualify for personhood because their lives have lost value.

- John Leo

Churches should not be directly involved in politics.

- John Leo

Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.

- John Leo

Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.

- John Leo