[A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and is far in excess of what is needed to provide us with the security and protections we all want.

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

It takes a lot of nerve to bang your fist and demand tougher juvenile gun laws while doing nothing to enforce the ones that already exist. I must point out that doubling the size of the criminal code will not matter if the Clinton-Gore administration refuses to vigorously enforce these laws.

I don't think there's any question that someday somebody who is innocent will be executed in this country again.

There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem.