America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.

Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.

Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

Any move to reduce government spending is a positive for the economy.

Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.

Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.