No group of our citizens can be denied the right to participate in the opportunities of first-class citizenship.

Dukakis ran without understanding that there was a Democratic Party out in the land, and he never did call on it.

I doubt the people of North Carolina will be content to allow the governor to decide or even unduly influence selecting their senator.

Senators, in the end, must be elected.

Needed reform of the nominating procedures has been thwarted by the individual vested interests of the DNC members in maintaining the maze of primaries and caucuses.

The main reason we've been the party out of power so long is we haven't had a good nominating process.

We have accomplished our mission of stopping Iraq's drive to take over Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Middle East. We should begin to reduce our forces in Saudi Arabia, ever so slowly, and look to a more multinational force to keep the peace.

The drafters of the Constitution... wisely put restraints on the president.

I'm proud to be an Albert Gore Democrat.

I've been ostracized before in legislative bodies for voting against the majority. That doesn't bother me.