There's no straight line to progress.

When what you’re doing doesn’t work for 50 years, it’s time to try something new.

The absence of hope can rot a society from within.

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

A man who took history in his hands, and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice.

Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.

I applaud the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. This was discrimination enshrined in law. It treated loving, committed gay and lesbian couples as a separate and lesser class of people. The Supreme Court has righted that wrong, and our country is better off for it. We are a people who declared that we are all created equal - and the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.