The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.

We like to believe that, in our lifetime, the human condition is improving.

It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.

We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.

Our actions in the Middle East over the last 15 years have already guaranteed radical Muslims quite enough ammunition to kill Americans for the next century, even if Guantanamo did not exist.

Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.