Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

I think we have an administration today that is dysfunctional. And if it can't get itself together to organize a serious program for finding nuclear material on its way to the United States, then it ought to be replaced by an administration that can.

The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.