It doesn t require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed it won t be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate.

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee.

It's nice not to have to worry about constituents, now, I simply do what I want.

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

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

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

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