If you've got a business - you didn't build that.

Tonight, let us think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11.

[A]lthough the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.

Keep guns out of inner cities-but also problem of morality.

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

My particular worries on any given day - how I'm doing in the polls or what somebody is saying about me... for good or for ill - isn't particularly relevant. What is relevant is: What am I building that lasts?