Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.

If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing solution

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

If we have more people on the receiving end of government - more people as the middle class becomes sucked in more and more to these entitlement programs, for example - then we're going to be in a place where it's going to be hard to go back. It's going to be hard to go back again. It's going to be hard to take away stuff. It's not impossible.

A [person] who Never quits is never defeated.

We, as a nation, cannot wait for the Pearl Harbor of the information age. We must increase our vigilance to tackle this problem before we are hit with a surprise attack.

This country has shed more blood for the freedom of other people than all the other nations in the history of the world combined, and I'm tired of people feeling like they've got to apologize for America.