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

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.

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.

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

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.

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn’t tell a lie and now they have one who can’t tell the truth.

The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.

I say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.

Donald Trump’s rule at that time, the only thing that you couldn’t joke about was a suggestion that he has less money that he claimed to.

The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.

And I think that that’s something that really is moving us to a new reality, where the parties are going to have to retrofit themselves and adapt to this new realignment.

One thing we’ve learned about Donald Trump – this candidate first, president-elect, and now president – is that he has this sort of reptilian instinct for rooting out supposed enemies and finding people he can whip up distrust into rage.