I'm personally very grateful to my many friends in the Greek-American community, sons and daughters of Greece who have found success in every walk of American life.

I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us.

Hope - Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope!

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

It was young people who stubbornly insisted on justice, stubbornly refused to accept the world as it is that transformed not just the country but transformed the world.

Things change pretty rapidly. But they don't change inevitably. They change because you work for it.

We have greater awareness of where we're falling short than we used to. Just take the example of community police relations.