My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

The very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm.

I know that the politics around trade can be very difficult - especially in an election year.

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense

There are certain occupations - probably, most prominently, politics - where there would be a bias against somebody who's agnostic or atheist in running for office.

If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.