We are Americans when we go to war and when we return we are Mexicans.

If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.

What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

In the months leading up to World War II there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy it's about jobs and it's about rebuilding America.

If it hadn't been for the Cold War neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts whether committed by foe or friend.

America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red white and blue from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.