The 'FISA Amendments Act' would gut the oversight system established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which subjected domestic spying to review by a special intelligence court.

In campaigns, promises are usually treated skeptically. Past positions are viewed as the one reliable way to gauge a candidate's instincts.

Honestly, anchoring the news on a nightly basis is the hardest job I've ever taken on.

It always rankled me - in law school and the legal profession - when lawyers would speak to each other in their own exclusive language.

All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race for money, place and power - far from the demands of business - out of the dusty highway where fools struggle and strive for the hollow praise of other fools.

Neither politics of chaos and anarchy has succeeded earlier and nor will succeed in future.