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

We will remember that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation and together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story with three words that will ring from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea:- Yes. We. Can.

If you have a family member who maybe is undocumented, then you have an even greater reason to vote.

Clem (Clementa Pinckney) understood that justice grows out of recognition of ourselves, in each other.

In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role.

Maybe at the same time as I'm more confident today, I'm also more humble.

While the future is unknowable, the winds always blow in the direction of human progress.