Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.

In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.

I'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.

Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus.

God is immutable—He never changes! His ministry to you is complete, on target, and constant!

For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.

Learn when's a good time to shut up

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth