Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other ...Fairness treats everbody the same.

It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.

We must have an economy that does not force the migrant worker's child to miss school in order to earn...just so the family can eat. That is the moral bankruptcy that trickle-down economics is all about.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of us. But that does not mean conformity. We are more than a melting pot, we are a kaleidoscope, where every turn of history refracts new light on the old promise.

Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.