When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.

I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

I met my wife in South Dakota.

We are at a crossroads over how the federal government in Washington and state legislatures and city councils across the land allocate their financial resources. Which fork we take will say a lot about Americans and our values.