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

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

The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.

Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

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.

NATO was a wonderful idea. It was formed in 1949. We are as far away from NATO as NATO was when it was done in time from the presidency of Grover Cleveland.

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