Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If you work hard. And are responsible. You should be rewarded.

No one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hand of the person they love.

I think that whenever you have got an incoming president of the other side it takes a while for people to reconcile themselves with that new reality.

And I agree that the Democratic legislators in Massachusetts might have given some advice to Republicans in Congress about how to cooperate, but the fact of the matter is we used the same advisers and they say it's the same plan.

How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.' Is that a Luo expression?' I asked. Sayid's face broke into a bashful smile. We have a similar expression in Luo,' he said, 'but actually I must admit that I read this particular expression in a book by Chinua Achebe. The Nigerian writer. I like his books very much. He speaks the truth about Africa's predicament. the Nigerian, the Kenya - it is the same. We share more than divides us.

America's nurses are the beating heart of our medical system.