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

Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.

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.

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.