I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life.

As a senator, I worried every day about the size of the federal deficit. I did not spend a single minute worrying about the effect of gays on the institution of marriage. Today it seems to be the other way around.

I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life.

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

Many, if not most, Americans can imagine a fate worse than death, and it is a seemingly interminable process of dying. For them, it is frightening that politicians can find ways to interject themselves into this sad process.

The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny.

In the Middle East, Iraq, Sudan, the former Yugoslavia and Northern Ireland, and many other places in the world, religion has been so divisive that people have killed one another, believing they were doing the work of God.