Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.

There is ample evidence that the horrific events of Sept. 11 have been carefully manipulated to switch public focus from Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, who masterminded the Sept. 11th attacks, to Saddam Hussein, who did not.

Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?

That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust