The world changed on September 11, 2001.

Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

A so-called 'blackout' is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals.

Our strength and our security depends obviously on having a strong military, having a strong economy, and also on our ability to have willing allies and nations join us in common global efforts, the principal one today being terrorism.

I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs!

When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.