The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students.

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

The people I'm honored to represent in Missouri and all over the country want leaders to address their kitchen table everyday problems.

Al Gore is a good man. He is a decent, caring man. He listens to his heart and his head. He loves his family.

I've thought a lot about the world and how George Bush sees the world and it ain't even close.

One of the big mistakes Republicans made with the Contract with America is that they tried to do too much too fast, and people revolted against it.

I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.