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.

If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.

I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.

It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize.

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.

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.