Many Americans are unaware that we still have a large population of working families, elderly, and children who rely on emergency food pantries, shelters, and other resources to meet their nutritional needs.

In rural areas of America, there is a growing increase in poverty, homelessness and hunger. You cannot separate these factors from domestic violence ?- a mother with three kids and no financial security is going to stiffen her lip and take the abuse, because not only does she have nowhere else to go, she has three children depending on her for survival.

I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get.

Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.

Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill.

It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.

Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.