I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.

The harsh fact of the matter is when you're passing legislation that will cover 300 million American people in different ways, it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.

I have enormous respect for Tom Daschle. The NRA has not yet taken a formal position on which I'm aware of on this matter, and I think Tom may be just getting a little ahead of things.

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].

Nobody in this country realizes that cap and trade is a tax, and it's a great big one.

War is failure of diplomacy.