If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement of wisdom of refinement with the democratic ideals of openness of social justice and of equal opportunity.

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

It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

And of course in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans or Filipinos I should say and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.

In a world of inhumanity war and terrorism American citizenship is a very precious possession.

Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.

World War II the atomic bomb the Cold War made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.