I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.

Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.

It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.

The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.