Medicare in particular, will run out of money, and we will not be able to sustain that program.

The people there, the community, the lessons that I learned -- they're all based right in this few square miles where we'll now be able to give something back and bring the world back home after this incredible journey.

I think that the Democratic Party is a big tent, which means that there are positions I may not agree with.

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

I reject discrimination against Muslim Americans - who are just as patriotic as we are.

I attend Trinity United Church of Christ, and my pastor [was] Jeremiah Wright.

Does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the education gap [between Afro-Americans and white] would be erased in five years or 10 years? Probably not, and so this is obviously a discussion we've had before when you talk about something like reparations.