Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.

My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.