When I started to get involved in the crime issue, people said, "it's a local issue." I said, "No, there are lots of ways the federal government can help." And the best way the federal government can help, and did in the Crime Bill, is to find programs that work around the country and help them spread.

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

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

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

As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.

Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.

There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?'