I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet military and a presumed 'window of vulnerability,' which we now know not to exist.

Great challenges confront our great nation. We seek to meet them by rising to the task, not by defining our country down.

As the saying goes, I have big heels to fill.

Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman.

America must always be the world's paramount military power. But we can magnify our power through alliances.

Glossed over the disastrous war and its multibillion-dollar price tag and implied again that our presence in Iraq is somehow improving the situation in that chaotic and turbulent country. The Congress must stand up against Bush's plan to escalate the war.