Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

We've got very aggressive cost controls implemented, and those are starting to take effect.

Americans of all political background overwhelmingly support term limits, yet term limits have floundered in Congress.

Military force is justified only in self-defense; naked aggression is the province of dictators and rogue states.

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.