We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide.

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.

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

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.

To question what I see, then to question what I see after that, because the questions matter as much, perhaps more than, the answers.

I’m so tired of crying.I’m so tired of losing.I’m just so tired.

This is the end of the day, but soon there will be a new day.

It is not only our right as members of the global human family to protest when our brothers and sisters are being treated brutally, but it is also our duty to do whatever we can to hep them.

We've got to be willing to lose the primary in order to win the general election.

All architecture, which does not express serenity, fails in its spiritual mission. Thus, it has been a mistake to abandon the shelter of walls for the inclemency of large areas of glass.

By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.

The only thing that follows work is results.

Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.

If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.