Over the past few decades, we've gotten into the bad habit of looking to the government to solve every personal and social crisis that comes along. People have really come to misunderstand government's scope. There's only so much it can do. For one thing, it's a terrible social regulator. And morals and values aren't things that legislation can even touch. You can't legislate morality. It doesn't work.

Don't look for me to make a run for the White House. I don't want that. I see what happens to everyone who takes that office: They all go in so virile and youn…

I'd like to clarify my comments about religious people being weak-minded. I didn't mean all religious people. I don't have any problem with the vast majority o…

I view the traditional two parties as in some ways very evil. They've become monsters that are out of control. The two parties don't have in mind what's best f…

You cannot have humane Zionism, it is a contradiction in terms.

Violence is, of course, alien to our ideals.

[Alan Cranston] understood power not as a reflection of status but as a tool with a purpose.' - Sen. Joseph Biden December 31, 2000 on Meet the Press