Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.

My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.

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

Do you believe today that the right to privacy does exist in the Constitution?

Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.

I think a public official ought to follow his conscience as to what is in the public interest, not what will protect his job.

The solicitor general is sometimes referred to as the 10th Supreme Court justice - a pretty important position.