Enhancing long term national security requires that we have a clear-eyed view of radical Islamic terrorism without ascribing radical Islamic terrorist views to all Muslims.

For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.

This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.

American leadership looks to the world and just as Lincoln did sees the family of man. Humanity is not a zero-sum game.

Our government shouldn't tell us where to travel and where not to travel.

Reckless, outrageous and undignified behavior has become excused and countenanced as telling it like it is when it is actually just reckless, outrageous and undignified. And when such behavior emanates from the top of our government, it is something else. It is dangerous to a democracy.

There are some Republicans who say that any time you raise new revenue, you have to have a tax cut to match it. I am not one of those Republicans.