I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.

The American military will never lose the war in Iraqif lost, it will be lost by a lack of political will.

The threat of nuclear terrorism is growing faster than our ability to prevent an attack on our homeland.

Whether or not Saddam is implicated directly in the anthrax attacks or the horrors of September 11, he is, by any common definition, a terrorist who must be removed.

The stronger our gun control laws are, the fewer acts of violence.

We cannot fulfill that purpose [environmentalism] if we are heaping contempt on God's creation.

When Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait in 1990, I felt America's post-Cold War commitment to national principles and international leadership was on the line. I was dismayed by the wide opposition among my fellow Democrats. To me, their position was wrong.