Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.

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

I have been a long and strong supporter of civil rights in my whole career. I led the fight to get the voting rights act re-enacted. I have been a strong supporter of affirmative action. I believe in it strongly.

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

I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.

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

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.