We have a moral concern to feed all of the hungry, wipe out malnutrition, so that every American be housed and every child have access to education.

Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.

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.

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.

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

I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.