Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

I hate to tell you, but it's not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill and there have been other scandals as you know that have been more than simply naughty e-mails.

It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.

Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph.

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.