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.

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.

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.

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

Behold we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job.

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.

Jace whistled. "Raphael is really having an exceptionally bad night." -Jace, pg.283-

In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.

Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and selling them.

There are good, humanitarian people everywhere - occasionally even in the Church.

I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think.

The thing with stand-up is, I really enjoyed it, but I kind of loathed it as well. It makes me feel physically sick.

I went to lose a jolly, Hour on the trolley, And lost my heart instead...

Do something. Get results. Decide if it's worth repeating.