a very, very powerful speech. |
As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics. |
As long as there are places in the state where poverty falls unevenly, we are still trying to build a perfect union, ... One day, there will not be a curtain between the Black Belt and the non-Black Belt. |
But the larger point that I've made is that we've done 25 years without a black Alabamian being appointed to the federal bench, |
I see about three movies a year, so I'm not a film critic, ... But this movie is a powerful work of art. It shows how ordinary events and lives become something profound. |
I think the convention is off to a wonderful start. |
I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white. |
It was a fantastic speech, ... It was a powerful statement of Democratic values. |
It would be immoral to subject the Gulf State's Medicaid reductions at a time when their Medicaid burden is greater than ever, ... It would be unreasonable to go forward with funding cuts for a variety of other states that will be asked to absorb evacuees. This bill would save Alabama alone $55 million in lost federal Medicaid funds. |
Obviously, our most pressing need is subsistence for the most vulnerable victims of Katrina, but we should not overlook the fact that the victims of Katrina also include middle-class Americans who have saved and invested, but now face an economic crisis, ... They should be able to tap into their savings and meet this crisis without facing an unfair penalty. |
Of the six billion people on this planet, two billion live on the equivalent of less than $2 a day in American currency, ... As long as America is the land of opportunity and jobs, people will do whatever it takes to come here. |
Our displaced citizens should have the same rights as our soldiers and for that matter, our college students, to participate in their states elections while they are temporarily away from home, ... This bill would allow evacuees to assert by affidavit that they intend to return to Louisiana or Mississippi and vote in the 2006 and 2008 federal elections by absentee ballot. |
Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network. |
The country needs this president to admit that his government failed, |
The devastation in the Gulf is so great that it will be very difficult for many of these campuses to reopen without significant assistance, particularly historically black colleges and universities, many of which have been devastated by the disasters — and we ought to help provide that assistance right away, |