We've been told that our crises are somebody else's fault. We are distracted from our real failures and told to blame the other party, or gay people, or immigrants, and as people have looked away in frustration and disillusionment, we know who has filled the void. The cynics, the lobbyists, the special interests, who've turned government into only a game they can afford to play. They write the checks while you get stuck with the bill. They get access while you get to write a letter.

I recognize there is a certain presumptuousness in this, a certain audacity, to this announcement. I know that I haven't spent a lot of time learning the ways …

The Israeli people, and Prime Minister Olmert, have made clear that they are more than willing to negotiate an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that wil…

It is important at this point that Congress offer specific constructive approaches to what's proven to be a foreign policy disaster because we've got too much …

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

France has no friends, only interests!

When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget.