In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty.

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.

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.

In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty.

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.