A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.

The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.

With respect to the Internet and emails, this does not apply to U.S. citizens and it does not apply to people living in the United States.

Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it.

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

There's a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that.Yes, I went to Princeton and Harvard, but the lens through which I see the world is the lens that I grew up with. I am the product of a working class upbringing.

When it comes to our military, what we have to think about is not, you know just budgets, we've got to think about capabilities.