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

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.

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

If I were a white candidate, I'd have won the Democratic nomination.

Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.

I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.

If I can make it, you can make it.