CHARLES B. RANGEL

When thousands of men and women work full time but need food stamps to put food on their tables, when they can't get health benefits, when they can't get paid sick days, then we must do whatever we can to stand up for them.

If you are spending too much, you cut back on spending and you raise your revenues. And that's it.

Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

So many deaths could be prevented if measures were implemented to expand background checks and keep individuals like John Hinckley from ever buying firearms in the first place.

No one should go into debt if a family member gets sick or injured.

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.

Liberty and security are often in direct confrontation and must be balanced in a way that protects us without destroying what is worth protecting.

As a veteran, I know firsthand the satisfaction there is in defending the democracy you so strongly believe in, but I can also attest to the trauma encountered from combat on the battlefield.

Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.

Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate.

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is a very sensitive issue that affects all of our constitutional rights and privileges.

We don't windsurf in Harlem.

It's morally wrong, and economically self-defeating, that so much wealth flows upwards towards the richest of Americans, while millions work full time but still can't provide for their families.

What are we Democrats fighting for? We are not fighting for salvation and going to heaven. But we are fighting for Medicaid, Medicare, health care, education, jobs, helping old folks.

I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out.

I went to college and law school with the help of the GI Bill. That experience moved me so much, I dedicated the rest of my life to serving this great country and helping others succeed.

It is without doubt that freedoms of the press and speech need to be protected, but there are undisputed limits to these freedoms, limits that often come into play when national security is threatened.

As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

Since the Korean War, U.S. and South Korea have established an enduring friendship with shared interests, such as denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, combating aggression abroad and developing our economies.

We can't have Harlem become one borough for the rich.

The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.