As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America.

In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.

Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs.

We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.

Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.

Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.

Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.

The wider we read the freer we become.

Mostly, what people mean by love is laziness.

Dreams are things from the past. They aren't from the future. That wasn't you imprisoned there. You imprison your dreams. You understand?Yeah, I'd say. But I wasn't convinced.

My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism

I always think the toughest commentary is on a bad goalless draw. If I were assessing a young commentator, I would rate him on a game where nothing is happening.

Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks.

I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.