What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?

When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate...because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the sinking of the Titanic. And it made me very grateful at the time that he had not gone down in a plane crash.

There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.

The people who started the American government, the founders of the Constitution, didn't like political parties but they were forced to start them. Nobody ever created political parties in England, they evolved. And there do tend to be two general tendencies that focus around how much government you think you need.

We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.