What we Americans need to do is respect that incredible blessing that we have as a nation and make sure that we are leading in the best ways possible.

We do not need to divide America over who served and how. I have personally always believed that many served in many different ways.

My friends, that's trickle-down economics, and I believe every worker in America is tired of being trickled on by George W. Bush

That's what I am standing up for - Israel's future as a Jewish and democratic state living side-by-side in peace and security with its neighbors.

I think that for many of us, the years of the Civil Rights movements - Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy running for president in 1968 to end the war and so forth - these were defining moment in terms of trying to hold government accountable and have a level of responsibility and truth-telling.

Remember the hours after Sept. 11 when we came together as one...It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.

We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.