When a child has no hope, a nation has no future.

I can remember that little thrill - that little shiver of excitement - when the Opry audience would encore a person because that person had touched them so.

You won't find average Americans on the left or on the right. You'll find them at Kmart.

Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, todays Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.

Silence isn't golden. It's yellow.

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

My family is more important than my party.