Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.

It would be better for the country if the Pentagon and the military do not shut down at any point because the threats to the country do not shut down.

To protect America's security, we are going to have to pull America's military out of the swamp of Washington politics.

Making America great again begins with making our military great again.

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

I'm not sure I would make a direct connection between having press attention as a young person and being interested in the media as an older person. I came to it more organically, coming from a family of Irish Catholic storytellers. Storytelling is a pastime and important part of my family's history and culture.

Rock music was the death of jazz in a way. I know there's a bunch of people who say jazz isn't dead, but I mean, rock 'n roll, you play three chords to 20,000 people; jazz, you play 20,000 chords to three people.

The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.