My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

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

The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.