With almost no time to decide, they [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the capitol from attack. They saved God knows how many lives. They saved the terrorists from claiming the symbolic victory of smashing the center of American government. And they did it as citizens. They allowed us to survive as a country that could fight terror and still maintain liberty and still welcome people from all over the world from every religion and race and culture as long as they shared our values, because ­ordinary people given no time at all to decide did the right thing.

Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.

My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism.

Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it.

I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.

My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.

To the extent that our workers compete with low-paid Mexicans, it is as much through undocumented immigration as trade. This pattern threatens low-paid, low-skill U.S. workers. The combination of domestic reforms and NAFTA-related growth in Mexico will keep more Mexicans at home. It is likely that a reduction in immigration will increase the real wages of low-skilled urban and rural workers in the United States.