I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.

There is fear, police in fear, people if are in fear, children are fear, but fear and hate must not drive our agenda, love and hope and healing must drive the agenda.

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.