One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.
I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.
With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move.
We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.
If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.
Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.
We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling some books.
Today in America we are no more 'post-racial' than we are 'post-partisan.' We have a long way to go.
Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.
No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.
President Barack Obama is a doer. And we in America will do big things with him.
But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here.
I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.
The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time.
I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.
