We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.

Ultimately peer pressure can lead people to bully, but peer pressure can also say bullying is not acceptable.

If everybody who voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.

American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.

Let's face it, I like Stanford grads. I'd always hear about this campus, and everybody is riding bikes, and people hopping into fountains.

This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class.

We must begin by acknowledging a hard truth. We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations, acting individually or in concert, will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified.