We are all the sons or daughters of immigrants - some more recent than others - but all dedicated to the triumph of an idea that serves as the touchstone of what it means to be an American. This America is the only America that we have hitherto known - if being conservative has anything to do with conserving the principles of our past, then no conservative has any business bashing legal immigration.

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.

The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.