Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.

The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt.

One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer of migrant student records.

We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and reward companies that create jobs at home.

If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.

As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.

Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems.

Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.

They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake.

When our faith becomes nothing more than a series of rules and regulations, joy flees and our love for Christ grows cold.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Interest refers to student’s affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill.

Each soul enters with a mission. We all have a mission to perform.

There is no corporation in the world that would, in a competitive environment, try and concentrate all decisions at the corporate level.

The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent.

Even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.

I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to agree with the director.

How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business!