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

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.

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.

It has long been my motto that if you cannot get your act together... then the very least you can do is try to make your act entertaining.

I wish you could have made me loving you.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again.

Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better

I get a lot from great '90s artists like Juliana Hatfield, The Pixies, and bands like That Dog and The Breeders.

When we had to survive on our wits, gather and kill our food from scratch and be more at the mercy of our environment than we are today, we probably had enough challenge to keep our brains healthy.

If you always feel comfortable reading God's Word, you're either not reading ALL of it, or you aren't letting it sink in.

There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.

I don’t have stamina in exercise...but I have it in life.