I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality.

Embryonic stem-cell research requires the destruction of life to create a stem cell. That's why I think we've got to be very careful in balancing the ethics and the science.

More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

The all-volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well.

The question is: How do we succeed in Iraq? And you don't succeed by leaving before the mission is complete, like some in this political process are suggesting.

I think, not only Al Qaida have an ideology; they have tactics necessary to spread their ideology. And it would be a huge mistake for the United States to leave the region, to concede territory to the terrorists, to not confront them.