When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

I can tell you about health care and also about the financial reform bill. The Barack Obama, the President personally and his administration officials at his direction were very much involved.

But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.

Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight

It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.

Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.

I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.