It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America.

In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.

Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs.

We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.

Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.

Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.

Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.

I think leadership is not something you learn it's something you discover.

The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

Everything. Things you lost. Things you’re gonna lose. Everything. Here’s where it all ties together.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.

I feel as though I am shelved. That I have been given the words to the story of my life, but that I have remained largely unread.

The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?

Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel more confident about the material.

If we take back the labor unions, the legitimate businesses, eventually they become just another street gang. Spiritually, psychologically, they've always been just a street gang.

I always think that the party that offers the most hope and ideas for the future is the party that wins.