I support the President's plan to amend the Constitution, banning same-sex marriage.

I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish.

Reagan proved that deficits don't matter.

Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.

Don Rumsfeld is the finest secretary of defense the nation has ever had.

The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.

I have argued in the past, and would again, if we had been able to pre-empt the attacks of 9/11 would we have done it? And I think absolutely. We have to be prepared now to take the kind of bold action that's being contemplated with respect to Iraq in order to ensure that we don't get hit with a devastating attack when the terrorists' organization gets married up with a rogue state that's willing to provide it with the kinds of deadly capabilities that Saddam Hussein has developed and used over the years.