Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

We need to aggressively take on radical Islamic terrorism but not at the expense of our American values.

Almost every great innovation was [created] by government.

I acknowledge these are very tough jobs a judge has in determining whether or not there is an openness that is required under the Constitution.

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