We talk a lot about operational control, and that's having a better understanding of who's coming in and who's leaving, what the threat really is. We're never really going to get that.

Cairo has flights into JFK, and they're going to open another one at Dulles... As long as we have flights coming directly to the United States, I think it's putting Americans at risk.

I would argue it should be a policy to defeat ISIS where they are, where they exist and prevent them from coming into the United States.

Without - you know, good intelligence stops plots against the homeland. Without that intelligence, we cannot effectively stop it.

We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

I know that millions of Americans from all walks of life agree with me that leadership does not mean putting the ear to the ground to follow public opinion, but to have the vision of what is necessary and the courage to make it possible.