Sometimes I'm frustrated. Rarely surprised. Sometimes I'm happy, you know. But war is not a time of joy.

Any outlaw regime that has ties to terrorist groups or seeks to possess weapons of mass destruction is a grave danger to the civilised world and will be confronted.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

There is a language barrier between vets and the civilian population. They speak different languages.

Some say that by fighting the terrorists abroad since September the 11th, we only stir up a hornets' nest. But the terrorists who struck that day were stirred up already. If America were not fighting terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere, what would these thousands of killers do - suddenly begin leading productive lives of service and charity? ... We are dealing here with killers who have made the death of Americans the calling of their lives.

I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times.

It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.