William Bradley: “I think about what you said, Senator Packwood, that President Reagan was so critical in tamping down the opposition…”

You need a President who is going to put his prestige and clout on the line to drive things through when the inevitable obstacles appear.

I differ from some of my colleagues in that I believe that there is a place in our system of justice for capital punishment. At one extreme of the scales of justice, there are crimes that so brutally deny the humanity of the victim and the…

the point is that we should tax less those things we like, such as wages, and tax more those things which are bad for us or dangerous, such as pollution.

Senator Bill Bradley, at the time, said that it was the best expression of community that he knew, the Social Security system.