We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.

Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.

His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight.

Nobody will save us from us but us.

We went across the South on Super Tuesday without a single catcall or boo, without a single ugly sign. Not until we got to New York and the North did the litmus test of race and religion spout from the mouths of public officials.

People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.