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.

As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants.

It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps.

[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words.

My father enabled me to really believe in myself. And yet I've heard very similar stories - from many, many people. It's the way he approached his life. The way he approached his life - he was the eternal optimist. He was the most optimistic person that I've ever known. Even in the face of this diagnosis with cancer, he was filled with optimism about what he could do and what he could accomplish.

If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference.

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.