Most people assume that physician language is akin to technical, non-understandable jargon. It does not have to be that way. Doctors do not perform witchcraft. They simply interpret what they are told and what tests reveal. They diagnose and prescribe treatment. Our responsibility is to help doctors know what is going on in our bodies and to insist on clear, precise, understandable language in response.

Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you.

Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.