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

Silence isn't golden. It's yellow.

It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.

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

Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?

Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather, but not with a Glock 9mm?

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.

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

Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.

For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.

There are superior, spiritual laws inherent in human nature

The purpose of life is to live, learn, and love.

It's true about the running water. You can hear anything you want to in it.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

Spirit, like body, needs to be trained. So I think it's necessary to make your spirit stronger. And for he who believes, anything is possible.

I try to work the hardest I can without burning myself out.

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

You see all I need is a whisper in a world that only shouts.

I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next ten years felt like a self-centered experiment in personal abuse.