Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too scrambled, to admit to ourselves that our black pride remained incomplete. And to admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred - for there seemed no reason to expect that whites would look at our private struggles as a mirror into their own souls, rather than yet more evidence of black pathology.

Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

A low-carbon, clean energy economy can be an engine of growth for decades to come.

Buy health insurance, or go to jail.

We have to have a president who is clear that you don't deal with Russia based on staring into his eyes and seeing his soul. You deal with Russia based on, what are your - what are the national security interests of the United States of America? And we have to recognize that the way they've been behaving lately demands a sharp response from the international community and our allies.

I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.