We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the entrepreneurial skills for the 21st Century.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.

The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.

Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.