In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.

I went through six years of battles on health care because I didn't have $100 million worth of advertising saying how it would never work.

In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

The problem is that, over time, big pieces of business that have to get done without leadership from Washington, don't get done.

I think that we've had an economy that's been out of balance for too long. So the general principle of raising taxes on higher income Americans, like myself, and providing relief to those who haven't benefited as much from this new global economy, I think is a sound one.

Justice needs to be served, what I think people of Baltimore want more than anything else is the truth. That's what people around the country expect.