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.

In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of funds until 2042.

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.

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

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