The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.

The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts lift us up.

Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other ...Fairness treats everbody the same.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

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 have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.