Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness

I see Donald Trump as a phenomenon of an expression of certain fears, certain resentments, that have been a running thread in American history.

It is time to do away with work place policies that belong in a Mad Men episode.

There is not a black America and a white America; a Latino America, an Asian America. There is the United States of America.

And I’ve said this all across the country when I talk to parents about education, government has to fulfill its obligations to fund education, but parents have to do their job too. We’ve got to turn off the TV set, we’ve got to put away the video game, and we have to tell our children that education is not a passive activity, you have to be actively engaged in it. If we encourage that attitude and our community is enforcing it, I have no doubt we can compete with anybody in the world.

Women can't wait for equal pay. And I won't stop fighting to address this inequality.

We had to get out of Chicago so quick. Election night happens, suddenly I'm talking to Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson and trying to figure out whether the world's going to fly apart, and Michelle is trying to figure out where the girls are going to go to school. And we pack up and leave and basically our house in Chicago just became like a time capsule. My desk in my home office still had stacks of articles and bills and stuff from 2008.