The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.

Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.

Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.

You really can change the world if you care enough.