Yet when the blood of the sons of immigrants and the grandsons of slaves fell on foreign fields, it was American blood. In it you could not read the ethnic particulars of the soldier who died next to you. He was an American. And when I think of how we learned this lesson, I wonder how we could have unlearned it.

If we added up the killed and wounded from the Democrat wars in this country, it would be about 1.6 million Americans.

At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.

The state is now more involved than it ever has been in the raising of children. And children are now more neglected, more abused and more mistreated than they have been in our time. This is not a coincidence. This is not a coincidence. And with all due respect, I am here to tell you it does not take a village to raise a child. It takes a family to raise a child.

When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.

If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay.

Elizabeth's back at the Red Cross, and I'm walking the dog.