Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

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.

Ultimately, intellectual work of this sort is its own reward, because it is focused on the only One whose recognition is important, the One before whom all hearts are open.

Our desire shall be our delight in the Lord.

Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leaves a large part of the personality unaffected by the trauma.

Most epiphanies happen after great loss or tragedy. The soul is equipped to deal with dynamic events because of its elastic quality. Energy is mutable, it can change its presence, but not its tone.

I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.

I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

Just because someone's pretty, doesn't mean she's decent.

Always now - just now - come into being. Always now - just now - give yourself to death. Practicing this is Zen practice.

I'm in a glass case of emotion