I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.

I think it was the right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein. And when the president made the decision, I supported him, and I support the fact that we did disarm him.

Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.

President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second.

We are a nation of laws and liberties, not of a knock in the night. So it is time to end the era of John Ashcroft. That starts with replacing the Patriot Act with a new law that protects our people and our liberties at the same time.

As I have said for two years now, when Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora, it was wrong to outsource the job of capturing them to Afghan warlords who a week earlier were fighting against us.

I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.