Once upon a time, the most successful Democratic leader of them all, FDR, looked south and said I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill clad, ill nourished. Today our national Democratic leaders look south and say, I see one third of a nation and it can go to hell.

Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.

I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel.

I can remember that little thrill - that little shiver of excitement - when the Opry audience would encore a person because that person had touched them so.

Howard Dean knows about as much about the South as a hog knows about Sunday.

For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.

My family is more important than my party.