No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

If we are willing to concede the President dictatorial authority where we happen to agree with him, as liberals have tended to do over the years, we will have little chance of tying his hands when we do not....You will see why many of us in the Congress understand how Dr. Frankenstein must have felt when his creation ran amok.