In our criminal justice system, we say it's better for 10 guilty people to go free than for even one innocent person to be wrongly convicted.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

The vast majority of gun owners don't kill, but people who do kill, tend to kill with guns, and often with illegal guns.

Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.

I know Obama, I like Obama, I voted for Obama.

There will never be another Ed Koch. He was an original, but he represented a significant, if shrinking, segment of American Jewry who refused to compromise their liberal values, their support for Israel or their Jewish pride.

Ideas don't desert you; ideas aren't treasonous to you, but people can be.