Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.

Women are hard enough to handle now without giving them a gun!

We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.

A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

At this sunset hour, the canyon walls are indescribably beautiful and I fear the magic of photography can never record what I see now. The tall spires near the canyon's top and the walls of the canyon up there look as if God had reached out and swiped a brush of golden paint across them, gilding these rocks in the bright glow of the setting sun.