If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

I've heard drug experts say they believe if penicillin were discovered today, the FDA wouldn't license it.

The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.

It's just too bad we can't have an epidemic of botulism.