Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.

It would be better for the country if the Pentagon and the military do not shut down at any point because the threats to the country do not shut down.

Making America great again begins with making our military great again.

The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.

The idea that the law should punish what is rude; that government should protect our tender sensibilities from those who would - quite often with shallow motivations but sometimes with deeper and more serious complaints - challenge our national certainties and rituals, should alarm and anger us.

We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.

When I first came into parliament, there was, on average, a by-election every three months - due not to MPs bailing out, but because of the death rate.