We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

Almost makes you want to go to jail out here, doesn't it?

The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the end, all the world's wealth and a thousand armies are no match for the strength and decency of the human spirit.

If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

Only a fool does not look to explain his mistakes.

The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. They torment the lives of millions in fractured nations around the world. These obsessions cripple both those who are hated and, of course, those who hate, robbing both of what they might become.