Clem (Clementa Pinckney) understood that justice grows out of recognition of ourselves, in each other.

The values that we share - freedom of speech, freedom of religious practice, freedom for civil society, free and fair elections, all the innovation that's been created through a market-based economy - those things are ultimately going to be the path for us to continue into a better future. I hope that, despite some of the challenges we have, that people appreciate that.

We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.

I have no more campaigns to run... I know because I won both of them.

[T]hese tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans are also the tax cuts that are least likely to promote growth.

It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere...That's the world! On which hope sits!