Some of my best memories of growing up on Long Island include spending all day fishing for fluke on Great South Bay.

We should make sure that we are never sending our troops into harm's way unless they're sent with a clear strategy to win, and learning lessons of the past to ensure that best path forward with what lies ahead.

There are many aspects of the government that operate off a continuing resolution. It's difficult to do so for the military.

Few professions are given as much power as we entrust to those who wear the uniform of a police officer. These individuals dedicate themselves to a calling in which threats that can materialize in an instant are part of the job description.

Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.

When you have corporate influence on our government outweighing the influence of citizens, that's terrifying. This is something we have to make a big, big noise about.

Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

Soon after the 1997 election, I argued that there was no inverse law of political gravity which said that everything which went down had to come back up.