I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.

The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.

America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.

A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.

A nation can't get strong on political pablum.