But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it’s not about the solvency of Social Security.

the number of Iraqis prepared to take on the insurgency is somewhere between 4,000 and 18,000.

We all know – or at least we are told continuously – that we are a divided people. And we know there’s a degree of truth in it. We have too often allowed our differences...

Whether we will have ever increasing protections for human liberty and dignity, or whether those protections will be diminished.

I’d expect the administration to detail what they think they’ve achieved, where they think they’ve fallen short, why they’ve fallen short and what help they need to, in fact, gain the initiative,

Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.

I wasn’t built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.

Specifically, … the administration should develop with Congress clear benchmarks or goals in key areas: security, governance and politics, reconstruction and burden-sharing. We in Congress should aggressively assert our oversight responsibility by insisting that the...

less concerned about an outbreak of civil war than I am about the outbreak of civil chaos.