As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.

The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates.

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.

Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request.

No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces.

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.

A number of the major terrorist captures we have made, the terrorist operations designed for the United States that we have interrupted, were enabled by the terrorist tracking program.

For the vast majority of places in America, there is no way you can build a security system such as we have here because of the high priority this rates in terms of terrorist interests.

That one doesn’t count. The poor scoundrel is deaf, but he makes a fine sniffer. How do you think we found you?

...when people oppose your view, you can become a lightning rod, but if I were you, I'd let them stew...

Poets write beautiful words to describe savagery-wrapped civilization nowadays.

Fill this city of mine with people as, You filled the river with fishes O Lord.

We are a rather big-headed little species in a vast cosmos which can do without us very well.

Dream! Dream! And then go for it!

I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.

I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.

Repect yourself... The rest will follow.

I'm very fond of the strictly visual cartoons I did when I was breaking in in the 1970's. Over time I migrated to a more verbal approach.