The currency bill we have would finally do something for China`s rapacious policies.

We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.

You do have to change things as warfare changes.

Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges.

Arafat was a barrier to peace.

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.