In the USA, it's harder for a black man with no criminal record to find a job than a white man with a criminal record, which is to say that race is actually a bigger factor than ex-felon status. But if you're both, it's almost impossible to find a job.

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

In the USA, it's harder for a black man with no criminal record to find a job than a white man with a criminal record, which is to say that race is actually a bigger factor than ex-felon status. But if you're both, it's almost impossible to find a job.

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.

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

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

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