Tolerance of dissent is the hallmark of a mature party, and it is well past time for the Republican Party to grow up.

We need more competitive races, ... We need the voice of moderation.

We have a lot of work to do and I‘m afraid that it‘s a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border.

We will have to wait a little longer to see if Armageddon has arrived.

Now we've got the cables. We've got talk radio. We've got the bloggers. I hate the bloggers.

Subjecting prisoners to abuse leads to bad intelligence, because under torture a detainee will tell his interrogator anything to make the pain stop. Second, mistreatment of our prisoners endangers U.S. troops who might be captured by the enemy – if not in this war, then in the next. And third, prisoner abuses exact on us a terrible toll in the war of ideas, because inevitably these abuses become public.

I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours.