Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken.
Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.
We’ve gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the ‘caustic caucus,’ and we can’t get anything done.
We may be a nation of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, but first and foremost we are all human beings and Americans.
We have Democrats saying dumb things every single day, and Republicans as well.
We can be fervent in our disagreements without being factitious with our beliefs.
Let’s do more than say the ‘Pledge of Allegiance.’ Let us live it!
I have family in Tanzania. I can’t even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.
Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work.
There is more power in unity than division.
First of all, do I think there’s some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. I’m an ordained United Methodist pastor; there’s some racists in the Methodist church. I don’t know if there’s a body that does not have some racists in it.
Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.
Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We’ve got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don’t have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.
America, I am a strong believer that how we treat each other matters.
The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.
This deal is a sugar-coated satan sandwich. If you lift the bun, you will not like what you see.
There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs.
God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.