When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability.

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and deteriorating roads, into the commander-in-chief. And it's just become almost unpatriotic to describe Bush's fallacious and ill-advised and mistaken and sometimes misleading actions.

We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.

There was promulgation of false propaganda by the administration about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation of false propaganda about Iraq as a base for Al Qaeda.

I advocate the modification of the '67 borders to let about half of the Israeli stay in Palestine.

Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life.