I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

We are all the sons or daughters of immigrants - some more recent than others - but all dedicated to the triumph of an idea that serves as the touchstone of what it means to be an American. This America is the only America that we have hitherto known - if being conservative has anything to do with conserving the principles of our past, then no conservative has any business bashing legal immigration.

The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.

The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.

I think it is important for all those young out there - who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands - [that] a distinction should be made that football is democratic capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.