Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.

Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.

Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely.

When we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.

Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.

I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire

Take caution when declaring war because you may believe it will be easy, but war will always end in despair.

Can we ever see the truth when desire blinds us? Or do we call it the truth because it is what we wish to see?

By the time he was done with the deer it had been dark three hours and his bad leg was singing 'Ave Maria'.

Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.

People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.

The abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart.

A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.