I think Americans want to believe in this country again.

It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.

I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.

Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.

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

And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.

The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.