I am confident that we will one day end the scourge of modern slavery, because I believe in those committed to this issue.

If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

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

Sometimes slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.

But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home that's no excuse ... Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.

There are always going to be some complications.

Will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy.