The Democratic Party is a house of many mansions. It is a body which is extremely important in representing all kinds of people in all parts of the country who have very broad and very different views.

The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam Hussein in charge of affairs.

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

Nobody in this country realizes that cap and trade is a tax, and it's a great big one.

Compromise is an honorable word.

If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].

The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.