The Federalist Society Has Made Important Contributions

If You're Going To Go Increase Taxes On Small Businesses, You're Going To Slow Down The Extent To Which We're Able To Reduce Unemployment. So I Think It's A Serious Mistake; The Wrong Time To Raise Taxes.

The Biggest Threat We Face Is The Possibility Of Terrorist Groups Like Al Qaeda Equipped With Weapons Of Mass Destruction, With Nukes, Bugs Or Gas. That Was The Threat After 9/11 And When We Took Down Saddam Hussein We Eliminated Iraq As A Potential Source Of That.

America Has Shown We Are Serious About Removing The Threat Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction... We Now Know That Saddam Hussein Had The Capacity To Produce Weapons Of Mass Destruction.... We Know He Had The Necessary Infrastructure Because We Found The Labs And The Dual-use Facilities That Could Be Used For These Chemical And Biological Agents. We Know That He Was Developing The Delivery Systems - Ballistic Missiles - That Had Been Prohibited By The United Nations.

I Can't Think Of A Time When We've Had A Region Emerge As Suddenly To Become As Strategically Significant As The Caspian.

It's Very Important To Go Back And Keep In Mind The Distinction Between Handling These Events As Criminal Acts, Which Was The Way We Did Before 9/11, And Then Looking At 9/11 And Saying, 'this Is Not A Criminal Act,' Not When You Destroy 16 Acres Of Manhattan, Kill 3,000 Americans, Blow A Big Hole In The Pentagon. That's An Act Of War.