America is providing the kind of leadership that the world respects and the world has come to understand; that is what America stands for.

I never sought to privatize Social Security.

But the thing we do know is whatever it costs to save and protect American lives in this conflict, we're going to spend.

There's always somebody who wants to take a shot at the peanut program,

Japan's inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan.

The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.