It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist deficit hawk.

I'm ashamed that Congress finds billions for pork-barrel subsidies but fails to find money for veterans' health care.

Some urge we do nothing because we can't be certain how bad the (climate) problem might become or they presume the worst effects are most likely to occur in our grandchildren's lifetime. I'm a proud conservative, and I reject that kind of live-for-today, 'me generation,' attitude. It is unworthy of us and incompatible with our reputation as visionaries and problem solvers. Americans have never feared change. We make change work for us.

Iraq is now the central front in the war against al-Qaeda.

A man I admire and respect - Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow associated with the worst chapter in American history, segregation, deaths of children in church bombings, George Wallace. That, to me, was so hurtful.

I have said for a long time that I thought the president would be best served if the attorney general resigned so I think it's the right thing to do.

We are an unfinished nation.