The reason I'm a Democrat is because the essence of the Democratic Party is an abhorrence for the abuse of power on the one hand, and the notion that everyone's entitled to be treated with dignity. That message never got through.

I'm prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception. But that is my judgment. For me to impose that judgment on everyone else who is equally and maybe even more devout than I am seems to me is inappropriate in a pluralistic society.

Don't listen to the cynics. They were wrong about my generation and they were wrong about yours.

What I was saying is that Israel cannot count on the United States.

I've been a strong supporter of public financing my whole career. I'm the first guy to introduce a public financing bill to the United States Senate in 1973.

No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I'm just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.