As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants.

Democrats may be in the minority in Congress, but we speak for the majority of Americans.

People of faith should not invoke the power of the state to decide what everyone can believe or think or read or do. In such cases, like abortion or prayer or prohibition or sexual identity, the proper role of religion is to appeal to the free conscience of each person, not the coercive rule of secular law.

Keep your tax-cutting, greedy hands off our medicare

In the United States Senate, one of the things I observed in the early days - and it's still used - and that is that you take someone's argument and then you misrepresent it and misstate and disagree with it. And it's very effective. I've done it myself a number of times. But eventually, eventually people catch on.

Supreme Court nominations are an occasion to pause and reflect on the values that make our nation strong, just and fair. And we must determine whether a nominee has a demonstrated commitment to those basic values.

The core values of our constitution are at the heart of our nation's progress.