Scripture tells us to "run with endurance the race that is set before us." As we do, may God hold close those who’ve been taken from us too soon.

Today we continue a never ending journey to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time.

That is our generation’s task - to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American.

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.

I've now been in 57 states. I think one left to go.

We are reorganizing how we work with state and local governments to make sure that we are not prioritizing families [for deportation], and you are gonna see, I think, a substantial change even as the case works its way through the courts.