America is a great country. We are so wealthy. But our one remaining challenge is to fulfill the potential of all our people. And the only way we can do that is to try to bring everybody together to a higher place.

Al Gore is a good man. He is a decent, caring man. He listens to his heart and his head. He loves his family.

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.

Politics takes patience, time, listening and endless meetings.

I led the fight for the Clinton health care plan in 1994. We failed. I learned from that experience. What I learned is you can't pass a complicated government-run plan.

When I'm president, we'll have executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day

The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students.