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.

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

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

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

Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.

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

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.