For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

We don't get ourselves dry cleaned.

The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.

Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.