If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.

And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

The fact that they're a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that it's National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.