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

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

We didn't defeat the Nazis by becoming Nazis.

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

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.

America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore.