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.

Silence isn't golden. It's yellow.

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

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

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.

Maybe her parents had picked a favorite kid, but that hadn’t bowed Kate. It had made her lock her legs and stand strong instead.

You must remain. I must depart.Two autumns falling in the heart.

Just know that if you move forward with honesty, faith and love, everything will be alright.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

I'm not a great believer in the power of the moving image. A still image has greater lasting power.

You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that.

The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling.

Like what you do. If you don't like it, do something else.