I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday.

We are all so privileged to be citizens of America, and we all need to be engaged.

Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception.

You know, when you're in public life, everything you do is out there. But I am proud to stand on my record.

Every proposal I'm making, every idea I'm advancing has a single, central purpose: to revive a failing economy and give working Americans the help and security they need.

I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.

I think in some cases busing did improve the situation in some areas; in some cases it didn't. We had busing in St. Louis, and it has been ended and we are using other methods of trying to better integrate the schools.