The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it

Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company.

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters are of that.

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.

It is ironic that Samuel Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Al Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California.