I actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the white population that stereotypes and makes assumptions about African Americans because they don't inject the history of slavery and Jim Crow into current incarceration rates, or crime rates, or poverty rates, or what have you.

Nature is actually resilient, if we take care to just stop actively destroying it.

As progressives we believe in affordable health care for all Americans.

Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear.

A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.

I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak - nothing passive - nothing naïve - in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King.

Since I've been in the Senate, is that my work with people like Tom Coburn on opening up transparency in government, making sure that every dollar the federal government spends that's out there - that that's all posted on a searchable database on the Internet.