When somebody says the best thing you can do is be tough, the best thing you can do is use your brute force, then we're selling ourselves short.

We really have to, as a country, recognize that school is where people get their identity not just as a scholar, or a future business person, but as a citizen. And we need to make sure that schools set them up for success as citizens.

I was raised in a family where we were taught that the best thing you could do with your life was to really kind of push the cause of progress and justice and human rights forward.

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.

When you're smart on crime, you start off by recognizing that both the victim, first of all, the victim, but also the person who did the crime are both human.

When somebody says the best thing you can do is be tough, the best thing you can do is use your brute force, then we're selling ourselves short.