By choosing a woman to run for your nation's second highest office, you send a powerful signal to all Americans. There are no doors we cannot unlock. We will place no limits on achievement.

Babies aren't born knowing differences in color, gender, religions. They're taught those things. They're taught them at home. They're taught in the schools. They're taught in the churches. They're taught in the mosques, in the synagogues.

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

I'm a competitive person, but I have never understood people's competitiveness at the expense of their colleagues.

I think Obama was terribly sexist.

Tonight, the daughter of an immigrant from Italy has been chosen to run for vice president in the new land my father came to love.

If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.