It has been my experience that the hearings are really, in effect, a subtle minuet, with the nominee answering as many questions as he thinks necessary in order to be confirmed.

We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops -- it's a snowball in July. It's not going to work.

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

I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.

Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward.

There are conspiracies all over the Senate floor on any day!

Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress?