What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.

We are at our best when we help the weakest. The weak make us strong.

We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.

The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.

It may seem ironic that the judicial branch preserves its legitimacy through refraining from action on political questions. That concept was put forward best by Justice [Felix] Frankfurter, appointed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

As I noted to my colleagues in the Roberts' hearings, in a year between 80 percent to 90 percent of the children in America diagnosed with Down's Syndrome will be killed in the womb simply because they have a positive genetic test which can be wrong, and is often wrong, but they would have a positive genetic test for Down's Syndrome and they will be killed.America is poorer because of such a policy.