20,000 jobs is really not that many jobs.

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.

Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely.

When we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.

Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Love your body. Exercise for 10-15 minutes daily.

The best career advice to give to the young is, 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

I just want to make different movies. I want them to be things that I care about and not to repeat myself.

I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes.

You are all angels, you guys know that right?

The time that I have on this earth should just be filled with good times.

The secret to finding your passion is to bring it to everything you do. --Marie Forleo (Yes, even doing the laundry!)

The key to a better life: Complain less, appreciate more. Whine less, laugh more. Talk less, listen more. Want less, give more. Hate less, love more. Scold less, praise more. Fear less, hope more.

But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.