If you look at countries like South Africa, where you had a black majority, there have been efforts to tax and help that black majority, but it hasn't come in the form of a formal reparations program.

You're the reason why selfless soldiers won't be kicked out of the military because of who they are or who they love.

ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.

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.

Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to - starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.

But while they're adding teachers in places like South Korea, we're laying them off in droves. It's unfair to our kids. It undermines their future and ours. And it has to stop. Pass this bill, and put our teachers back in the classroom where they belong.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.