The problem is not that Christians are conservative or liberal, but that some are so confident that their position is God's position that they become dismissive and intolerant toward others and divisive forces in our national life.

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.

When we vest our personal opinions with the trappings of religion, we make religion the servant of our politics.

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

The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny.

I have never seen more Senators express discontent with their jobs....I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been accomplices in doing something terrible and unforgivable to our wonderful country. Deep down in our heart, we know that we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy. We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected.

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.