When you run ads saying you are going to save social security, my friend, that's all hat and no cattle.

Russia has now become a nation fueled by petro-dollars that is basically a KGB apparatchik-run government.

I don't know how you defeat an insurgency unless you have some handle on the number of people that you are facing.

There's a misnomer that Hillary Clinton is as hawkish as I am, basically.

I have said for a long time that I thought the president would be best served if the attorney general resigned so I think it's the right thing to do.

There is always an element of realpolitik that has to be present in the conduct of any nation's national security affairs. At the same time, we have to also have a balance between realpolitik and Wilsonian principles of freedom and democracy and human rights. And maintaining that balance is the greatest challenge that we in the West, including the Federal Republic of Germany, have to face because it's many times a very difficult decision-making process.

As part of Social Security reform, I believe that private savings accounts are a part of it - along the lines that President Bush proposed.