'Never give in' was my mindset.

As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.

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.

We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.

Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.

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

I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.