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].

To go to war, you must always think of, can you win?

Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.

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.

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.

Compromise is an honorable word.

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