“Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.