Senator Obama voted against Justice Breyer and Justice Roberts on the grounds that they didn't meet his ideological standards. That's not the way we should judge these nominees. Elections have consequences.

There is always an element of realpolitik that has to be present in the conduct of any nation's national security affairs. At the same time, we have to also have a balance between realpolitik and Wilsonian principles of freedom and democracy and human rights. And maintaining that balance is the greatest challenge that we in the West, including the Federal Republic of Germany, have to face because it's many times a very difficult decision-making process.

It is illegal for children to purchase tobacco in every state in the country. And in every state ... tobacco companies have invested enormous sums of money and time to encourage widespread lawbreaking.

We have to love our freedom, not just for the private opportunities it provides, but for the goodness it makes possible.

In California, it's hard to buy all the media, no matter how much money you raise or spend, because it's such a huge state.

Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don't have to be scared of as president of the United States.

I will not agree to have this bill [to repeal DADT ] go forward, because our economy is in the tank.