Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

Even talking about change can be threatening to entrenched interests...Careers in the Pentagon, the board room, or the halls of Congress are not advanced by creating the disruptions that go with real change, so there are very few voices willing to speak up for the future and move beyond rhetoric to make serious choices.

Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.

The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.

We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.

No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.