My grandmother's generation and generations before always saw beyond the horizons of their own lives and their own circumstances. They believed that opportunity created today would lead to prosperity tomorrow.

Mitt Romney has undergone an extreme makeover, and it ain’t pretty.

My grandmother's generation and generations before always saw beyond the horizons of their own lives and their own circumstances. They believed that opportunity created today would lead to prosperity tomorrow.

At the same time, it's people that are employed - many folks - but they're still not earning enough to get into the middle class.

The American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor. My grandmother never owned a house. She cleaned other people's houses so she could afford to rent her own. But she saw her daughter become the first in her family to graduate from college. And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.

[People] are ready to go out and vote. There's a difference between being ready and energized and actually going out and voting.

I wanted to be a quarterback. I used to like Johnny Unitas, the old quarterback for the Colts.