Prison is an important part of life. We can't have violent people running around in the streets. (3 out of 4 federal prisoners are serving time for non-violent crimes.) Most competent and qualified kindergarden teachers can tell you who the 5 kids are in his or her class likely to wind up in prison 15 - 20 years from now.

I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association.

The real truth is, there's no such thing as a red state or a blue state, they're all purple. Some are more purple than others and our job is to get them all deep purple and then blue. And we can do that.

We have to say what we believe... whether it's popular or not.

This is a struggle between good and evil and we're the good?

I have never favored a Social Security retirement age of 70 nor do I favor one of 68.

How much courage does it take for Dean to throw red meat to the party faithful?