Race is a lie built on a lie. The first lie is that people are different, somehow skin color or hair texture is more significant than eye color, or the shape of one's feet. The second lie built on top of that is that there's a hierarchy that more significant difference, the color showing up as brown on your skin rather than brown in your hair, or whatever, is somehow more significant and there's some sort of hierarchy. That the lighter you are, the straighter your hair, the better you are.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

I train my kids to dream really big and impossible dreams and to pursue them doggedly.

Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.

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

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

In order to bring down the incarceration rate, you've got to start with the beginning of life. You've got to make sure that parents and schools are prepared to prepare young people for success. You've got to deal with the next stage of life. You've got to make sure that people have the opportunity to work at a good job, they have access to good healthcare, and that they have the opportunity to build wealth over time.