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

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.

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.

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.

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.

You know what, the moment I see you, first thing that comes to my mind is, I have just wasted 26 years of my life without you...

Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library.

Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.

Thou hast been called O sleep! the friend of woe But 'tis the happy who have called thee so.

The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.

Here it is - right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it.

I realized that a lot of the great directors that I admire from [Ingmar] Bergman to [Fredrico] Fellini re always shooting, then going into the editing room, and shooting again.

By the time a writer comes onto a project (if they're being hired as a contractor) the main character has usually been designed, as that's always done during a project's pitching stage.

The foundation of a disciplined life is integrity and doing what we say we're going to do.

Love is the way messengers from the mystery tell us things