My father was absolutely no good.

The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation.

Of course things get stagnant; people get too used to their environment, but that's why I'm in my district every week, at meetings with my constituents.

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.