There is parallels these two great men John McCain and Ted Kennedy of great impact in the Senate, you don`t agree with everything they did but certainly they had major impacts as senators. Their one major political failure not to be elected president but that didn`t stop them from having enormous impact and at roughly the same age, exactly the same disease. It`s kind of a poignant sad parallel.

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

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

Particularly marijuana, I think is a great hypocrisy. I think frankly it contributes to a good deal of the sense of unfairness you have among younger people who are told they shouldn't do this because it’s got all these negative effects, but then older people are engaging in all kinds of things that probably have a greater impact on people.

In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.

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

Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in knots.