I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.

China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

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.

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.

While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass.

Play hardball with Musharraf, but don't cut off US aid.