Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.

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

The average 20-year-old serving us in Iraq knows more about their country's national security than the average 20-year political veteran serving in the Congress today.

Now, being a POW certainly doesn't qualify anyone to be president. But it does reveal character. This is the kind of character that civilizations from the beginning of history have sought in their leaders.

You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.

I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that.