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

The reason that minorities and women dont have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.

Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?

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

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.

I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.

I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.