Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.

When your team loses, everybody gets deflated. And it's hard, and it's challenging.

A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.

We are still the America that does the hard things, that does the great things. We're the nation that always dared to dream. We're the nation that dared to take risks.

Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights.

There’s no black male my age, who’s a professional, who hasn’t come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn’t hand them their car keys.

Progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all.