It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.

If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.

President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.

This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.

While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund into more than one account.

Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about governments failure to fix real problems.

Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.

It will not say, 'Isn't X beautiful?' Such demands are murderous to beauty.

If you want people to believe you, appeal to their hearts not to their brains

This mountain must come down, the mountain of ignorance has to be brought down

Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?

A man who sits under a tree and dreams makes more journey than a man who goes around the world without dreaming!

British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.

It also didn't take me long to decide that Tri-Cities wasn't for me, and that I wasn't going to go there to play basketball.

Being religious is quintessentially American.

I have been told for so many years that you can't be smart and sexy. I started to think, "Well, why the heck can't you be both?"

If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.