We focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed immigrants even more.

Government doesn't have to be the enemy, but too much government has produced a new kind of inequality in America: opportunity inequality.

Ultimately, my proposal isn't intended to increase or decrease the amount of federal spending spent on antipoverty programs.

I have no intention of being vice president. I have said it clearly.

There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government - principles that recognize that because all of us are equal in the eyes of our creator, all life is sacred at every stage of life.

Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.

All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.