I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.

America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.

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

I'm too mature to be angry.