But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying.

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.

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

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

For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.