We will be seeking to knock out that part that says groups that engage in voter-registration and get-out-the-vote activities are not eligible.

What’s troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

He couldn’t stop taking blame. He was a basket case and couldn’t keep it together.

But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects – that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how...

This is very revealing of the hypocrisy of the NRA, … They would have the second amendment of the Constitution amended so it would also read ‘a well regulated militia being necessary to the security...

It is true that the results of the American intervention in Afghanistan will certainly be a far more democratic Afghanistan, and I welcome that.

There’s a lot to be said for not displacing people.

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

It is a very bad idea for the United States government to spend tens of billions of dollars to send people to Mars and to the moon,

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

It’s hard to see how anything could be completed before the election.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

I hope the regulators understand by now there is, I think, unanimity on this committee that they should experiment, they should be flexible, they should do everything reasonable to get money into people’s hands because...

While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the...