“I supported the Iraq resolution, but that was not an approval of war in Iraq and certainly was not approval for an occupation of Iraq.”

After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation’s ability to protect its borders.

It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials.

Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher – like Reagan – refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.

It’s not a gun control problem; it’s a cultural control problem.

Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture.

On taking office, Obama promised the ‘most transparent’ administration in history; yet his record as president has been anything but transparent.

The Republican Party has become the party of the government status quo, and conservatives see no reason to reward it with their votes.

Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties – from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.

The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.

It matters not whether its proponents have a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.

History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis – real or manufactured.

For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting ‘experts’ that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

Courts have long recognized the federal government’s robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being – to help someone to succeed.

To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.

Another occupation might have been better.

It is one of the instruments of the occupation whose function is to give the cover of legal legitimacy to the crimes of the occupation.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It’s not an occupation or profession, it’s a compulsion.