It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.

There's nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd.

When the president acts in absence of a congressional grant of authority, he can rely only upon his own independent powers. When the president takes measures incompatible with the express or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb.

My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.

There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.

Neither this nation nor this party can afford a candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up re-electing a president of the incompetent left.

When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.