We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.

So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent.

Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.

I always say that campaigning and governing are two different things.

I believe there are too many children who need loving parents to deny one group of people adoption rights. A child will benefit from a healthy, loving home, whether the parents are gay or not.

We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.

You could see a man talking to himself as just plain crazy, or read about the criminal on the front page of the daily paper and ponder the corruption of the human heart, without having to think about whether the criminal or lunatic said something about your own fate.