In every war zone that I've been in there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

Love and war are the same thing and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist as sexist inhumane war mongers - well today as a conservative black Republican and former solider I'm here to set that record straight.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth as if the taste of lies was homey appetizing: a habit.

When I saw corruption I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life or the truth.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.