If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?

That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.

Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.

From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill innocent individuals has dreadful consequences.

Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so.

Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very high profile, some very strong language.