In Decision After Decision On The Bench,

Legal Immigrants Play By The Rules And Come In Under The Law. They Work, Raise Their Families, Pay Taxes, And Serve In The Armed Forces. ... Legal Immigrants Do Not Seek To Cross The Border, Or Overstay Their Visas. They Come Here The Right Way. ... And, By And Large, They Are Here As The Result Of Reunifying Families.

In An Era When Too Many Americans Are Losing Their Jobs Or Working For Less, Trying To Make Ends Meet, In Close Cases Judge [samuel] Alito Has Ruled The Vast Majority Of The Time Against The Claims Of The Individual Citizens. He Has Acted Instead In Favor Of Government, Large Corporations And Other Powerful Interests.

Frankly, I Don't Mind Not Being President. I Just Mind That Someone Else Is.

The Stark And Tragic Images Of Human Suffering In The Aftermath Of Hurricane Katrina Have Reminded Us Yet Again That Civil Rights And Equal Rights Are Still The Great Unfinished Business Of America. The Suffering Has Been Disproportionately Borne By The Weak, The Poor, The Elderly And Infirm, And Largely African-americans, Who Were Forced By Poverty, Illness, Unequal Opportunity To Stay Behind And Bear The Brunt Of The Storm's Winds And Floods. I Believe That Kind Of Disparate Impact Is Morally Wrong In This, The Richest Country In The World.

My Brother Need Not Be Idealized, Or Enlarged In Death Beyond What He Was In Life; To Be Remembered Simply As A Good And Decent Man, Who Saw Wrong And Tried To Right It, Saw Suffering And Tried To Heal It, Saw War And Tried To Stop It. Those Of Us Who Loved Him And Who Take Him To His Rest Today, Pray That What He Was To Us And What He Wished For Others Will Some Day Come To Pass For All The World. As He Said Many Times, In Many Parts Of This Nation, To Those He Touched And Who Sought To Touch Him: "some Men See Things As They Are And Say Why. I Dream Things That Never Were And Say Why Not."