It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second.

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.

Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.