Buy health insurance, or go to jail.

As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together.

[A]lthough the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an upward course or whether we just ride the cycles of boom and bust, war and peace, ascent and decline.

It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried.

I think I have a pretty good take on popular culture that maybe makes up for the fact that I'm not a sound-bite politician for the nightly news.

Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.