When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.

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.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.

This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing.

One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.