We need the cooperation of the Pakistanis. If we don't have any, we lose insight into the actions of those who would do our country harm.

Part of my job is to make sure the Northeast is part of our defense industrial base, and New Jersey has always played a role.

Our nation has invested millions of dollars in building safe, humane and, I may say, air-conditioned facilities to detain and prosecute the detainees at Guantanamo.

Diminishing violence is a goal everyone can support, and I look forward to participating in the debate when specific proposals come before the House.

I've been rich; I've been poor. I've been successful; I've been decimated. And the way I felt inside didn't change dramatically. It's less stressful to have money, that's for sure. But that doesn't mean I felt fulfilled. So I've learned to live in the smaller moments of life.

The middle class is a group defined by more than just money: it also leans on credentials, education, aspirations, assets, and, of course, household income.

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.

The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task. Work is a noble calling.