Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

There’s no consensus on cutting the budget, solving the illegal immigration problem, tackling the looming meltdown of Medicare and Social Security or making a concerted effort to win the hearts of minority voters.

Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.

If you think Independence Day is America’s defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor – providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

At this particular juncture I think what you want is as much honest counsel as you can get.

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.

In many cases, a bout with sickness stretches your soul, opens your eyes, and introduces you to a world of unimagined grandeur, possibility and joy.

Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.

Tommy Franks and the coalition forces have demonstrated the old axiom that boldness on the battlefield produces swift and relatively bloodless victory. The three-week swing through Iraq has utterly shattered skeptics’ complaints.

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies...

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.

It’s always an honor to be considered in such stories, to be mentioned.

We live in an anaesthetized society.

Investigators have discovered that dogs can laugh, which can’t be too big of a surprise.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

The newly passive George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.

We’ve got to rebuild human hearts – and persuade people that hope isn’t just possible, but essential.

It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

President Bush hates responding to the press, hates responding to political enemies ? he thinks it’s beneath him. He’s got a stubborn streak.

Well, we can’t afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.

It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.

The real sin with Social Security is that it’s a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.

One of the reasons I took the job is not only because I believe in the president, because believe it or not I want to work with you.

It’s as if an android had inhabited 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn’t make you less of what you were. You are still you.

These are times that are going to be very challenging. We’ve got a lot of big issues ahead and we’ve got a lot of important things that all of us are going to be covering...

Many people don’t give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.

When it comes to federal spending, George W. Bush is the boy who cant say no. In each of his three years at the helm, the president has warned Congress to restrain its spending appetites,...

Millions of Americans annually commit themselves to such good works, and no country on earth comes close to matching our record.

There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

President Bush has committed billions to the fight against AIDS, thus making retroviral drugs available to millions of HIV-positive Africans.

No president has looked this impotent this long when it comes to defending presidential powers and prerogatives.

To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from...

George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation.