Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

The only time a dead certainty applies is in a dream world.

I'm a pretty serious Independent.

If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.

The western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.

I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of.

I'm not a fan almost anywhere of announcing to the enemy of what I'm going to do.