Lawmakers need to be held accountable and should feel the impact of a government shutdown just like many other Americans will.

We want to develop innovative ways to promote savings so more Americans can save for their future, but first we need to reject privatization schemes and work together to strengthen Social Security.

Agriculture looks different today - our farmers are using GPS and you can monitor your irrigation systems over the Internet.

Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.

At a time when we are losing manufacturing jobs in this country, we should be doing everything we can to help our manufacturers stay competitive. They are the backbone of our economy.

Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.

We must continue to be diligent in protecting Americans' civil liberties while preserving critical law enforcement tools we need to keep America safe.

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I'm flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes.

Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state's economy.

We need to make college affordable in price, and also have lower-cost student loans and more available grants for students.

Cut not the wings of your dreams, for they are the heartbeat and the freedom of your soul.

Telling the world you are trying is not doing.

Create with the heart

There always comes the day when children swallowthe key to the door of secrecy. They’ll not return it.

I'm a Jewish kid who grew up loving hip hop in NY.

Life is so often unfair and painful and love is hard to find and you have to take it whenever and wherever you can get it, no matter how brief it is or how it ends.

The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

I cannot picture to myself a time when all mankind will have one religion.

What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him.

At the end of the day, anything I think I'm sacrificing I'm just giving up because it makes me feel better.