America has an ability to try to make some things happen that other countries don't necessarily have.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

An old American patriot described today’s situation very well. As America fought for its independence, Benjamin Franklin said, “we must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

I commanded a naval gunboat patrolling the Mekong Delta. Then when I came home after two tours of duty, I decided that the same sense of service demanded something more of me.

It's hard to say that something is legitimate when a whole portion of the country can't vote and doesn't vote.

It took President Obama to make America lead like America again.

Reduce US military presence in Iraq; and bring in neighbors.