I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.

At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.

We are at a crossroads over how the federal government in Washington and state legislatures and city councils across the land allocate their financial resources. Which fork we take will say a lot about Americans and our values.