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

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.

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.

Coexistence and personal peace are at the heart of global peace and harmony.

I almost trust her to burn the bridges while standing at the cliff herself. She hardly agrees to be on the same page as others, either ahead of all or all in a different book.

Liberty is about our rights to question everything.

Let go of the spirit of the departed, and continue the celebration of your own life.

The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.

There's not enough dust to cloud our love for freedom.

Science is about filling in the details.

The condition of your birth doesn't determine the outcome of your life. This is America.

When you have a big problem to solve, break it down to smaller ones first.