The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

An ability to compromise is important. That means stepping back and getting the ego out of the way in order to accomplish what you want to get done.

Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create a new economy especially for those in rural America. Our program invests in clean energy alternatives and provides energy assistance for those in need.

I believe the American people spoke loud and clear to the Bush Administration in yesterdays election that they disapprove of the current direction in the war in Iraq. As a result, the President wasted no time in dumping Secretary Rumsfeld.

Get yourself prepared, educationally and emotionally, and develop mental toughness. Don't ever give up.

A question I often get is, "How do you maintain your sanity with so much happening all around you?" I think I developed a certain mental toughness that is required in the business. You have to have a thick skin and a brass bottom, because you're going to kicked a lot.

In particular, the emerging call from our nation's evangelicals to protect God's creation is substantial