I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.

Japan has chosen to ignore internationally recognized science and instead based their food safety on emotion and politics. This comes at a high price for the American beef industry. ... We're not going to stand idly by while politics and posturing drive international trade policy rather than sound science.

Before the war, the U.S. intelligence community told the president as well as the Congress and the public that Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and if left unchecked would probably have a nuclear weapon during this decade,

Amind of tribalism is a pillar for injustice and corruption

If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent.

We need to continue our full support of the nascent Iraqi government by helping to rebuild their economic infrastructure and maintain security while training the Iraqi security forces.