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The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric.

It is not enough for us to merely continue to talk about and contribute to the echo chamber of white noise of what's wrong with America or for candidates to spout off silly poll-tested talking points about national security or foreign policy.

To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.

The bottom line is these techniques have hurt our image around the world, the damage they have done to our interests far outweighed whatever benefit they gave us and they are not essential to our national security.

The American people want solutions to the problems our country faces. They may disagree on exactly how to address the issues, but they want them addressed all the same.

We don't push back hard enough against the government. We could use, the country in general could use a more adversarial press corps, especially when it comes to matters of national security.

President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.

People don't question American power. What people need to be convinced of is American will.

In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results.

What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.