The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

It's impossible for us to forecast what's going to happen ten years from now and make a decision today to say what we're going to do.

There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack.

Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate.

The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.

If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.

Well, I really think that shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.

Don't let your 'future success' dim the beauty and light that's in front of you right now.

All life is in vain, for Death makes a nonsense of pain.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.

We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.

In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.

I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.

I was always very... impatient about showing my paintings to people.

We will not let governments off the hook. We will look to civil society to help us, to pin governments, to what they have committed to here. And we will report on it.

I don't want to sound like some grumpy old man telling you to get off my lawn.