The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But ending it is a greater moral imperative now than ever before, because for the first time humanity has the instruments at hand to defeat this cruel enemy at a very reasonable cost. We have the ability to provide food for all within the next three decades.

It is a modern tragedy that one of the Soviet Union's most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the administration of the most ill-informed and dangerous man ever to occupy the White House.

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

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

I still love to go back to Mitchell [his home town] and wander up and down those streets. It just kind of reassures me again that there is a place that I know thoroughly, where the roots are deep. Everything had a place, a specific definition.

I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.

As an American, I want our forces to prevail.