Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.

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

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.

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.

I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.

I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope.

Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.