The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent on the basis of their gender, or race from opportunities to develop, perform, achieve and contribute. Affirmative action is an effort to develop systematic approach to open the doors of education, employment, and business development opportunities to qualified individuals who happen to be members of groups that have experienced long-standing and persistent discrimination.

I refuse to be part of a generation that celebrates the death of communism abroad with the loss of the American dream at home.

Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls.

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

Nothing we do in this great capital can change the fact that factories or information can flash across the world, that people can move money around in the blink of an eye... Nothing can change the fact that technology can be adopted, once created, by people all across the world and then rapidly adapted in new and different ways by people who have a little different take on the way that technology works.

Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.

I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.