We do not need more division. We certainly do not need something as complex and emotional as Vietnam reduced to simple campaign rhetoric.

Our cause in the war on terror isn't helped when we have army officers like Lieutenant General William Boykin speaking in evangelical churches and claiming this as some sort of battle for the Christian religion. That's wrong. That's un-American.

I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America.

I am a veteran, I fought in a war. I've been a prosecutor. I've sent people to jail for the rest of their life.

I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.

We cannot fight communism all over the world, and I think we should have learned that lesson by now.

The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.