At a time when the insurgents are saying that time is working against them, my Democratic colleagues are introducing a measure to set a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq that will undercut the momentum that the insurgents themselves say we have built in Iraq.

For the vast majority of places in America, there is no way you can build a security system such as we have here because of the high priority this rates in terms of terrorist interests.

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.

History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.

Workers come to America to fill jobs unwanted by Americans, but they are staying and they are not going home.

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.