Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.

I think 9/11 guaranteed that national security is going to be in the forefront of every election.

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

We have had triumphs, we have made mistakes, we have had sex.

A good country song taps into strong undercurrents of family, faith, and patriotism.

The Cold War began with the division of Europe. It can only end when Europe is whole.

Time and again in this century, the political map of the world was transformed. And ineach instance a new world order came about through the advent of a new tyrant or the outbreak of a bloody global war, or its end.