I support the death penalty for the kingpin, the guy at the top, but I don't think you should throw a drug offender in jail for five years, and let a mugger out after a year.

Biking through New York's boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to them.

If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

The companies move labor to the lowest-cost markets. And so I don`t - I used to support these agreements. In the Congress, I lost the AFL-CIO endorsement a few years because I supported them. But when middle class incomes are declining, these agreements don`t work well for America.

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

When a nominee doesn't get 60 votes, you shouldn't change the rules, you should change the nominee.