If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

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.

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don't cry about what you don't have. Use what you got.

When I was a boy we were poor and we had to make do with what we had. So my grandma used to make us quits that we used for blankets. She couldn't afford to go to the store and buy a blanket -- so she'd take scraps of cloth and sew them together. there'd be different colors and different patterns and different types of cloth -- but they all went together to make that big quilt to keep us warm.