When a leader correctly identifies real hurt and insecurity in our country and instead of addressing it, goes looking for somebody to blame, there is perhaps nothing more devastating to a pluralistic society.

Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy.

President Trump and his administration are right to be concerned about national security, but it's unacceptable when even legal permanent residents are being detained or turned away at airports and ports of entry.

I feel at some point that the farm state politics will overwhelm the Florida politics.

After September 11, it became unpatriotic to question any homeland-security or defense spending, and that let things get out of control.

The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.

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