I really do not make deals.

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.

As the Republican Party has moved farther and farther to the right, I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy and more in line with the philosophy of the Democratic Party.

No senator's vote, except for the declaration of war or the authorization for the use of force, is more important than the confirmation of a nominee for the Supreme Court for a lifetime appointment.

If you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.

I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.

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