Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.

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.

The Constitution is a radical document... it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights.

She got to go to heaven four days early.

Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas -- to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.

I'm just trying to suppress my natural impulses and get back to work.

You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.