I Am Not A Professional Politician.

My Philosophy Is Not A Bean-counting, Accounting 'look At This.' It Is A Philosophy That Smaller Government Is Better Government, And Government That Is Closer To The People Is Best Of All.

People Say You Favor Assassination, What Do You Think War Is? Except That It's Assassination On A Much Larger Scale, A Much More Horrific Scale.

Just As The Security Council Was Largely Irrelevant To The Great Struggle Of The Last Half Of The Twentieth Century - Freedom Against Communism - So Too It Is Largely On The Sidelines In Our Contemporary Struggles Against International Terrorism And The Proliferation Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction.

There Is No Patriotic Obligation To Help Advance The Career Of A Politician Who Is Otherwise Pursuing Interests That Are Fundamentally Antithetical To Your Values. That's Not The Call Of Patriotism.

The International Criminal Court Uses A Prosecution-only Approach. And By Putting Their Fate In The Hands Of Outsiders, Countries Are Really Dodging Responsibility For Actions Taken In The Name Of That Country, In The Name Of The People In That Country, By The People Of That Country Themselves. That Is, I Think, Fundamentally The Wrong Direction To Go In.