Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.

[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.