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.

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.

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.

Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.

Time Management means managing ourselves with the timezones when we are naturally energetic.

The word of God, softens every harden heart.

Neither when we have chosen our way can we keep company with those who go the other way. There must come with the decision for truth a corresponding protest against error.

People always say, "I don't mean to do this . . . ," and then they do it! If you don't mean to touch on something, then don't touch on it. That's how I feel.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

You are the expert on you.

This banjo surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.

At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.

I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.

If you do not see any good in these persons, then say nothing, but if you do see some, speak about it to honor God in them because all good proceeds from Him.