If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.

To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them.

New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.

We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage.

Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.