Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.

America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor.

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.

I fight for what I believe. If you are not willing to stand up for what you believe, your beliefs are not strong enough.

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

This bill attempts to make sure that President Clinton is not allowed to do by Executive Order what Congress has declined to enact in the past two congressional sessions namely, to treat homosexuals as a special class protected under various titles of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.