Our democracy if self-cleansing. If you don't like it, be a candidate, or support a candidate.

I think in some cases busing did improve the situation in some areas; in some cases it didn't. We had busing in St. Louis, and it has been ended and we are using other methods of trying to better integrate the schools.

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.

We can see beyond the present shadows of war in the Middle East to a new world order where the strong work together to deter and stop aggression. This was precisely Franklin Roosevelt's and Winston Churchill's vision for peace for the post-war period.

In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty.

I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday.

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