It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.
If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today.
Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.
Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.
If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward.
When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.
The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.
The solicitor general is sometimes referred to as the 10th Supreme Court justice - a pretty important position.
Beating the tea party gang is more important than who does the beating.
The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.
My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.
American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.
What I would ask the leaders to do is to better understand the American people. I would insist that the leaders have town meetings and meet the people and listen to them and find out what is on their minds.
When the president acts in absence of a congressional grant of authority, he can rely only upon his own independent powers. When the president takes measures incompatible with the express or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb.
It has been my experience that the hearings are really, in effect, a subtle minuet, with the nominee answering as many questions as he thinks necessary in order to be confirmed.
No senator's vote, except for the declaration of war or the authorization for the use of force, is more important than the confirmation of a nominee for the Supreme Court for a lifetime appointment.
I'd make - before I'd elect somebody - I'd make him do town meetings and face the people and then I would insist that the person not run on a platform of no compromising. The meaningful thing that the leaders could do would be to be dedicated to a discussion across the isle, to vote their consciences and not to follow the strict party line. I think that would lead to sensible decisions.
How many members of Congress go face the people in a town meeting and are prepared to answer questions from the floor. That to me is the real litmus test.
