You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.

It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.