If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.

President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.

This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.

While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund into more than one account.

Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about governments failure to fix real problems.

Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.

It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.

One of the best things that you could ever do for your life, is to follow your passion, turn it into a dream, and introduce it to the light of reality.

I mean, scamming on guys on the Internet? I thought that was only for forty-year-old divorcees who Photoshop their pictures in an effort to appear younger and thinner.

He might be a genius, but that did not make him a leader

My point is, I don't see the need to eat animals. I love animals; besides the horrible stuff that's put in meat, I actually love cuddling with animals and petting them and stuff.

Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wise

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.

I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.

I guess my style’s a little edgy but comfortable. I like being comfortable, for sure, and kind of casual.

If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.