The majority of the American people still believe that every single individual in this country is entitled to just as much respect, just as much dignity, as every other individual.

We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.

We must have an economy that does not force the migrant worker's child to miss school in order to earn...just so the family can eat. That is the moral bankruptcy that trickle-down economics is all about.

I do not bring any professional knowledge of the issue to bear, but what I do bring to my consideration of immigration is a deepened and highly sensitized feeling with those persons who feel alien in our country. I can feel the strangeness they feel because it is something I have experienced in a different area.