Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year.

History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.