In other words, United States, our values, the way that we occupy ourselves in terms of saying here's the way we stand in this country when we go to war, it's not that we go in and we kill off anybody, including families. We don't take the riches. We don't claim the women. My God, that's not America.

Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas.

Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.

In 2007 the 'dagger' of an idea that killed President Bush's effort at reforming the immigration system was lax border security.

Alaska and Montana are not in the south but they definitely form part of the crimson tide of red states where Republicans are dominant.

American people are a little tired of anybody saying, let's get back in war. Why don't we go back (inaudible).

My wife and I, Delice and I, are empty nesters.