By the grace of God, we won the Cold War.

Every loss of life is terrible.

A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel.

No president can easily commit our sons and daughters to war.

Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land.

The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

The only time I had any butterflies was when I stood up and backed toward the open door and looked down.