Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

The public's evaluation of the job George W. Bush is doing as president changed dramatically as a result of the horrific attacks of September 11 and his response in leading the country on a campaign against terrorism.

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

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.

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

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

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