The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process.

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.

Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike.

How we continue to fund Medicare and Medicaid into the future is a pressing issue of national concern.

As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.

Any Congressional agreement of an arbitrary time table to bring our troops home before we have accomplished our mission is unacceptable and could potentially increase the risk to our soldiers.

Everyone agrees that our ultimate goal is to establish a free, open and democratic Iraqi government and bring our men and women in uniform home as soon as possible.

Looking long term, a stronger, wealthier, and more stable Central America next door benefits the United States' own safety, security, and economy.

The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world.

Rest assured that my support for any eventual reform package will be based firmly upon what is in the best interests of the people of Upstate New York, not any party or president.

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

Hope is the foundation for which all successful goals are built upon.

The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become.

For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example and precept can still be drawn.

I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to.

Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism.

There's a thrill in the midst of the hardship in knowing that I'm making the invisible real. And I'm doing what I want.

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do.

The world's five thousand extant languages are products of our shared ability, but the five thousand cultures they create are separate from each other.

If the world knew what I was doing, they would hang me from the highest tree.