Our president's latest energy initiative was to go to Saudi Arabia and beg King Abdullah to give us a little relief on gasoline prices. I guess there was some justice in that. When you, the president, after 9/11, tell the country to go shopping instead of buckling down to break our addiction to oil, it ends with you, the president, shopping the world for discount gasoline.

It has always been my view that terrorism is not spawned by the poverty of money; it is spawned by the poverty of dignity. Humiliation is the most underestimated force in international relations and in human relations. It is when people or nations are humiliated that they really lash out and engage in extreme violence.

It is hard to partner with someone when you become so radioactive no one wants to stand next to you.

We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.

I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.

A vision without resources is an hallucination.

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.