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.

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.

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.

I'm Sorry, ' he says. It's simple and direct, with none of the nonsense about God calling home an angel too young and who are we to question his mysterious ways.

Things mean pretty much what we want them to mean.

It is vain to speak of approaching judgment when finding our place, our portion, and our enjoyment in the very scene which is to be judged.

God’s grace is freely available but in order to receive it you have to realize you are lost without it.

It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.

The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I'm in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

The Patriot Act followed 9-11 as smoothly as the suspension of the Weimar constitution after the Reichstag Fire Decree.

Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind.