Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.

My family is more important than my party.

Howard Dean knows about as much about the South as a hog knows about Sunday.

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

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.

I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow.

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.