You ought to serve on the platform you run on.

Supreme Court nominees should know without any doubt that their job is not to impose their own personal opinions of what is right and wrong, but to say what the law is, rather than what they personally think the law ought to be.

President Bush has proven he'll take a stand and fight for his programs and initiatives. It's the kind of leadership that makes things happen.

John Marshall's warning that the power to tax is the power to destroy has taken on far greater meaning... more specifically, the power of the Internal Revenue Service is threatening to destroy the freedom of religion , guaranteed by the First Amendment. As part of that guarantee, Congress has granted tax exemptions for churches to avoid excessive interference in their religious activities.

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.

If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.

Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.