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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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