Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.

We must explain the truth: There is no free lunch.

We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill.

President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.

A Congressional Budget Office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and 80 percent after that.

Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.

The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened.

If Congress doesn't raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check.

There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act.

Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.

To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.

Try a little harder to be a little better.

Evolution is a religion

Hannah ran past, beaming. I remember that feeling--when you're a kid and it's your birthday and for one day everyone makes you feel like the most special person in the world.

I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not excuse I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

I know club music has to be infectious and it's got to make you move.

When you try to convince yourself that something doesn't bother you, it usually bothers you more.

How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!

You can usually tell when a couple becomes centered on each other because they are forever breaking up and getting back together.

I love to cook.. but nothing that had to die.