I believe that this country's policies should be heavily biased in favor of nondiscrimination.

We must work tirelessly to make sure that every boy and girl in America who is up for adoption has a family waiting to reach him or her...This is a season of miracles, and perhaps there is no greater miracle than finding a loving home for a child who needs one.

Thomas Jefferson understood the greater purpose of the liberty that our Founding Fathers sought during the creation of our Nation. Although it was against the British that the colonists fought for political rights, the true source of the rights of man was clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson wrote that all humans are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights . . . . It was self-evident to him that denying these rights was wrong and that he and others must struggle to win what was theirs.

Hope I lived up to my reputation for being slick.

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.

It might suprise you to know I think I raised them too much, too

I tried marijuana once or twice in England, but didn't like it. I didn't inhale.