During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us.

It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.

You can't get a solution if you won't talk to the people that have the problem. You can't ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.

The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.

The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.