If the history of wartime politics teaches us anything, it is that measures that seem just, or at least permissible, in a time of conflict, can have damaging and lasting repercussions.

I didn't come to Washington to make friends. That's not where my friends are.

What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community wit…

I would have loved to have voted for it, but my view of my job is to do what I think is right, not to be cowed by the name of the bill.

The Japanese could read the US press, with its lurid discussion of how US bombing could exterminate this inferior and vicious race by burning down Japan's wood…

I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy.

'It is more than a crime; it is a political fault,' -words which I record, because they have been repeated and attributed to others.