Immigrant families have integrated themselves into our communities, establishing deep roots. Whenever they have settled, they have made lasting contributions to the economic vitality and diversity of our communities and our nation. Our economy depends on these hard-working, taxpaying workers. They have assisted America in its economic boom.

Even one justice can advance or reverse the progress of our journey.

ur struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown - although it often seems that way.

What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.

Supreme Court nominations are an occasion to pause and reflect on the values that make our nation strong, just and fair. And we must determine whether a nominee has a demonstrated commitment to those basic values.

Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.

Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.