With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

I will keep faith with death in my heart... For the sake of goodness, for the sake of love, Let no man's heart be ruled by death... The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life; to regard it, with the understanding and the .emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.

First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity.

Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path.

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.