Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

One of the best parts of the holiday season is spending time with the special people in your life.

I think that most Americans don't resent people for getting rich. They want to get rich themselves.

Reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, making sure that in our Department of Education, where we see evidence of black boys being suspended at substantially higher rates than white boys for the same behavior, in the absence of that kind of rigorous enforcement of the nondiscrimination principle, then the long-standing biases that I believe have weakened, but are still clearly present in our society, assert themselves in ways that usually disadvantage African Americans.

If you look at how I've tried to and how I'll continue to try to govern, I'm not driven by some ideological agenda. I'm a pretty practical guy and I just want to make sure that things work.

I believe that the best measure of whether a nation is going to be successful is whether they are tapping the talents of their women.

I will never apologize for saying that the future of humanity and the future of the world is going to be defined by what we have in common as opposed to those things that separate us and ultimately lead us into conflict.