Emergency
EDITOR'S NOTE: President Ronald Reagan delivered this speech to the British parliament on June 8, 1982.My Lord Chancellor, Mr. Speaker:#ad#The journey of which this visit forms a part is a long one....
View ArticleThe Defense of Freedom & Metaphysics of Fun
EDITOR'S NOTE: This speech was delivered by President Ronald Reagan at National Review's 30th anniversary dinner on December 5, 1985.Ladies and gentlemen, I mean it literally when I say it is a delight...
View Article"a Providential Man"
EDITOR'S NOTE: Vice President Dick Cheney delivered these remarks at the June 10, 2004, state funeral for President Ronald W. Reagan at the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.Mrs. Reagan, members of the...
View ArticleAbortion and The Conscience of The Nation
EDITOR'S NOTE: While president, Ronald Reagan penned an this article for The Human Life Review, unsolicited. It ran in the Review's Spring 1983, issue and is reprinted here with permission.The 10th...
View Article"The Great Liberator"
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the text of Baroness Margaret Thatcher's eulogy at Ronald Reagan's funeral on June 11, 2004. It was prerecorded.We have lost a great president, a great American, and a great man....
View ArticlePurple Heart News
EDITOR'S NOTE:A new voice has been added to the debate over the circumstances surrounding Sen. John Kerry's first Purple Heart. William Schachte, who was a lieutenant in the Navy during Kerry's Vietnam...
View ArticleNote to Congress
EDITOR'S NOTE: What follows is a letter to Congress from the newly formed Coalition for Security, Liberty and the Law, representing dozens of leaders in law enforcement, the legal community, think...
View ArticleStrategy of Defeat Vs. Strategy of Victory
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the text (as released by the White House) of a speech delivered by President George W. Bush at the Kirby Center For The Performing Arts in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, earlier...
View ArticleOn The Stump
EDITOR'S NOTE:"A president must have a vision in order to lead this country. You cannot lead if you don't know where you're going," President George W. Bush said at a lunchtime rally in today. The text...
View ArticleThe Stain
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is text from a Nov. 22 release from the polling company, inc.When asked, "In your opinion, what will Bill Clinton be remembered for?" a majority of Americans cite some aspect of the...
View ArticleVidal Discredited!
EDITOR'S NOTE:This will appear in the upcoming (December 31, 2004, issue of National Review) as well as in Esquire.An Open Letter to Our Readers Concerning William F. Buckley Jr.In 2003, Esquire...
View ArticleThe Global Appeal of Liberty
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the text of President George W. Bush's second inaugural address, as released by the White House.Vice President Cheney, Mr. Chief Justice, President Carter, President Bush,...
View ArticleFma, Now
EDITOR'S NOTE:Gerard V. Bradley is a professor of law at the University of Notre Dame and a noted scholar in the field of constitutional law as well as law and religion. On April 13, Bradley testified...
View ArticleOn The Defensive
EDITOR'S NOTE:Ward Connerly, one of the nation's foremost critics of race-based affirmative action, was awarded the Bradley Prize by the Bradley Foundation earlier this year, which recognizes those who...
View Article"Let's End The Misery"
This is the text of an e-mail sent out last week from Britian's ambassador to Poland, Charles Crawford.Subject: LOOSEN THOSE EU BUDGET TALKS - LET'S END THE MISERYKim/Nicola,This Budget thing is...
View ArticlePutting The First Amendment First
EDITOR'S NOTE:"We who oppose such a proposal want to continue to freely debate our ideas in the public arena. We want Americans to hear all sides--and to decide for themselves who's right." So write a...
View Article"A Lawful Society and a Welcoming Society"
Editor's note: This is the text of President George W. Bush's primetime speech on immigration. Good evening. I have asked for a few minutes of your time to discuss a matter of national importance – the...
View ArticleThe Importance of Protecting Marriage
Dear Senator,Next week, you will vote on a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution protecting the institution of marriage. As Governor of the state most directly affected by this...
View ArticleFox "All Stars"
EDITOR’S NOTE:The following is the June 6, 2006, transcript of the All-Star Panel on Fox News Network’s Special Report with Brit Hume.The members of the panel were: Bill Sammon, senior White House...
View ArticleOBL's "Prince" Is Dead
Editor's note: The president addressed the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi this morning in the Rose Garden. Below is the text of his statement, as released by the White House. Good morning. Last night in...
View ArticleIn Praise of Partisanship
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is Tom DeLay’s final speech on the House floor (the evening of June 8, 2006), as prepared for delivery.Mr. Speaker,Political careers tend to end in one of three ways:...
View ArticleEnforcement First
Editor's note: This letter was released this morning by John Fonte of the Hudson Institute.#ad#Prominent Conservatives and Civic Leaders Urge President Bush and Congress to Back Enforcement First on...
View ArticleCrashing into a Gate
EDITOR'S NOTE: There have been reports that Jerome Armstrong, a hero of the liberal blogosphere, co-author, with Markos Moulitsas, of the book Crashing the Gate, and adviser to Democratic presidential...
View ArticleGreat and Noble Goals
Good afternoon. Congress has just passed and sent to my desk two bills concerning the use of stem cells in biomedical research. These bills illustrate both the promise and perils we face in the age of...
View ArticleThe Great Test of This Generation
Editor’s note: This is the text of a speech Sen. Rick Santorum (R., Pa.) delivered at the National Press Club Thursday.When I came to Washington in 1990 Karen and I were expecting our first child....
View ArticleCondemning Communism
Editor’s note:This is the translation of a petition circulated by movie director Sorin Iliesiu. Read the real thing on the website of the Group for Social Dialogue.APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT OF ROMANIA,...
View ArticleAmerica's Diplomat Gets a Hearing
Editor’s note:This is the text of John Bolton’s opening statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Thursday morning, as prepared for delivery, as provided by his office. Bolton was recess...
View ArticleFreedom vs. Darkness & Tyranny
Editor’s note: This speech was delivered by President George W. Bush on Tuesday, September 6, 2006.Thank you all very much. (Applause.) Thank you all. Please be seated. General Hendrix, thank you for...
View ArticleInterview with the Commander-in-Chief
Editor's note: Yesterday President George W. Bush met with a small group of journalists at the White House. National Review’s Byron York was there and wrote up the meeting here. Below is the...
View ArticleThe Gathering Storm
Editor's note: This is the text of a speech Republican senator Rick Santorum is delivering around his state today and tomorrow.This summer I gave two speeches that defined the unique challenges that...
View ArticleA Critical Crossroad
Editor's note: Senator Joseph Lieberman (D., Conn.) delivered this speech on the Senate floor on the evening of Monday, February 5.Mr. President, our nation has reached a critical crossroad in the war...
View ArticleRomney Announces
"I am happy to be in Michigan this morning. I'm happy to have my brother Scott and Sister Lynn here. And I'm proud to have all my children and grandchildren here too. #ad#"Michigan is where Ann and I...
View ArticlePatricia Taylor Buckley
Patricia Taylor Buckley died on 2 A.M. on April 15, 2007, at the Stamford Hospital in Stamford, Conn., of an infection, following a long illness.#ad#Born Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 1,...
View Article"Unacceptable"
Editor's note: The president delivered this message on Tuesday night as he vetoed the Iraq-war supplemental funding bill.Good evening. Twelve weeks ago, I asked the Congress to pass an emergency war...
View ArticleA New Era of Freedom
Editor’s note: Arizona Senator John McCain, Republican candidate for president, delivered these remarks at the Hoover Institution on Tuesday. Since the dawn of our republic, Americans have believed our...
View ArticleOur Responsibility to the Troops
Editor's Note: The following is the text of the statement Senator Joe Lieberman made on the floor of the U.S. Senate today on the subject of providing funding for the war in Iraq.Mr. President, in the...
View ArticleConversion Story
Editor’s note: This is text of a speech delivered by former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney at a banquet for Massachusetts Citizens for Life on May 10, 2007. Thank you Kay.It is an honor to...
View ArticleTime for Choosing
Editor’s note: This is the text of a speech Senator Joe Lieberman (I., Conn.) delivered today to a meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition.Thank you so much for that kind introduction. It is a...
View Article"The terrorists are in this war to win it."
Editor’s note: This is the text, as prepared, of Senator John McCain’s Senate floor speech on the war, delivered on the afternoon of July 10, 2007. Mr. President, the Senate has reached another moment...
View ArticleProper of the President
Editor's Note: The following is testimony David B. Rivkin Jr. delivered to the House Judiciary Committee hearings Wednesday on the the president's Scooter Libby commutation.Statement of David B....
View ArticleHeroic Labor
Editor’s note: This is the text of a speech President George W. Bush delivered to troops in Anbar Province on Labor Day 2007.Thank you all. General, thank you very much. It’s an honor to be with...
View Article'Return on Success'
Editor's note: This is the text of an address President George W. Bush delivered to the nation on Thursday night, as released by the White House.Good evening. In the life of all free nations, there...
View ArticlePath to Victory
Editor’s Note: Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld received the 2007 Claremont Institute’s Statesmanship Award in honor of Sir Winston S. Churchill on November 17, 2007, and delivered the...
View Article"Faith in America"
Editor's note: This is the text of a speech delivered by Mitt Romney at the George H. W. Bush presidential library in College Station, Texas, today. These are the prepared remarks distributed by the...
View ArticleFreedom & Religion: Perfect Together
Editor’s note: This is the text of a speech former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney delivered on Thursday night before the Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty’s Canterbury dinner, where Romney and his...
View ArticleBraveheart
Editor’s note: On Thursday night, Governor Mitt and Mrs. Ann Romney received the Canterbury Medal from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. Ann Corkery, who directs philanthropy at Security National...
View ArticleWhat Ardent Practicing Catholics Do
Editor’s Note:Fr. John De Celles, STL, is an associate pastor at Old St. Mary’s Church in Alexandria, Va. This is his homily for the 22ndSunday in Ordinary Time (Aug. 31, 2008), as prepared for...
View ArticleBig Change Is Hard
Editor’s note: President Barack Obama delivered the following remarks at a House Democratic Caucus retreat in Williamsburg, Va. Thursday night. The transcript below comes via the White House.Thank you....
View ArticleThe Prop 8 Proponents' Emergency Motion
editor’s note: Proponents of Proposition 8 have filed an emergency motion for a stay of Judge Walkers gay-marriage ruling, pending appeal. This is the text of their motion for a Ninth Circuit stay....
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