The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important.

The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of.

I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.

If you told me back in my Army days that I could have bought the same weapon that I had been using in training, I would not have believed it.

When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.

Americans like to say we're fighting for democracy, and yet young Americans have come to the view that democracy doesn't deliver.