Getting the care for a common cold, migraine, or high blood pressure can and should be easy, whether one has an insurance card or not.
My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.
You go to traffic court in many locations throughout the country, and you can spell justice - J-U-S-T dash U-S. Just us.
I'm a realist, and so we have to take what exists and continue to struggle to move forward.
I would jump off the Willis Tower, which is the tallest building in Chicago, to support Hillary Clinton.
People crown kings and queens at homecoming parades all the time. We do a lot of things in our society that are simply symbolic.
One of the things about the Constitution - that our forefathers wrote, and basically, there were none of our foremothers that were there. There were none of our fore-sisters there. There are changes that can take place, and there is room to change.
Our nation's attitudes toward trade have been shaped by the evolving struggle over who has been helped and who has been disadvantaged by trade policy as our economy has developed.
The best protection against recidivism is a job.
What the federal government can do, especially as it relates to urban, inner-city America, is invest resources that would help create jobs.
I don't have as much money as Rahm Emanuel.
In politics, you make use of every opportunity.
Trade and globalization are here to stay.
The history of the African American community is one of enduring, relentless struggle with a vision of accepting nothing less than full social and economic equality.
Whether the struggle was between English merchants and the American colonies, pre Civil War northern manufacturers vs. southern slave holders, or American grain farmers and auto manufacturers seeking advantage in the Mexican agriculture and labor markets in the 1990s, U.S. policy has reflected the economic clash of interests of the day.
The way to reduce the deficit is to create jobs and work opportunities so that people will have money with which to pay taxes.
Some of the huge tax breaks that we gave to the wealthiest 1 percent of the population in this country during the Bush era have contributed significantly to the deficit.
Culture is central to what makes us human.
Our nation's multiculturalism is what makes us so special as a nation.
The arts are what humanize science and history.
