I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white population is understood.

After a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999.

The same would be true for something like Social Security, where historically, if you just read the law and the fact that it excluded domestic workers or agricultural workers, you might not see race in it, unless you knew that that covered a huge chunk of African Americans, particularly in the South.

We are a nation of laws.

Our planet is changing in ways that will have profound impacts on all of humankind.

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own