When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one...

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth...

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

Our values call upon us to care about the lives of people we will never meet.

The notion that we are going to stand by in the face of this is unacceptable.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

They are two Illinois companies who want to do business and expand, … but they are having roadblocks.

There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America.

The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those...

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

a judicial philosophy that ignores the possibilities of racial discrimination or gender discrimination, a political philosophy that typically errs on the side of the powerful.

It’s a good reminder of the fact that highly rational people can be engaged in a highly irrational purpose, … I’m reminded what Einstein said: Our wisdom has not caught up with our technology.

The Bush Administration’s failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the...

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends...

In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost.

Kalau mereka tidak berakar pada tradisi mereka sendiri, mereka tak akan mampu menghargai kebudayaan orang lain.

Sooner or later, politics catches up with the Supreme Court. If Democrats are consistently losing elections, then our views and our values will be less represented on the court.

When the federal government would actually save millions of dollars by forgoing the status quo and actually sending evacuees on a luxurious six-month cruise it is time to rethink how we are conducting oversight. A...

It’s puzzling, given his immediate response during 9/11, that he did not feel a greater sense of empathy toward the folks that were experiencing this enormous disaster, … This Week.

it ended up not being a very big deal.

To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society’s ills on the...

We are the change we have been waiting for.

I find it unbelievable that the EPA would continue to drag its feet despite the fact that their own analysis found that these rules could prevent 28,000 lead-related illnesses each year,

This is not one of those situations where I think you can just jawbone industry into making the investment, … This is not something that the markets alone will correct. We will have to use...

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution...

I have absolute confidence that if everybody works hard for the next 24 hours, we’re going to see Freddy come out on top,

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still...

Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

It was apparent on the first day that blacks were disproportionately impacted, and I felt it was important to help frame how we think about that issue, … I was outraged and heartbroken by what...

held no public office, she wasn’t a wealthy woman, didn’t appear in the society pages, she did not have an advanced degree (but) when the history of this country is written … it is this...

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of...

My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you’ll join with me as we try to change it.

I’m inspired by the people I meet in my travels–hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I’m inspired by the love people have for their children. And I’m inspired...

But for a younger generation of conservative operatives who would soon rise to power… They were true believers who meant what they said, whether it was ‘No New Taxes’ or ‘We are a Christian Nation.’...

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.

In cities and towns all across America it turns out that people pay for their own lunches and their own dinners. People who make far less than we do.

None of us wants to see any fraud or waste in government spending, … But nowhere should we be more willing to give people the benefit of the doubt than with the brave men and...

It is way too simplistic just to say this administration doesn’t care about black people,

We were in a lounge with a locked door at one point. It wasn’t the Gulag.

Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends – honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity,...

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for their father’s mistakes….

These shells behind us, these casings, are a testimony to the decades that have been spent creating weapons of destruction, … The hopes in the programs that have been discussed today are that we can...

We can’t accomplish what we need to accomplish by across-the-board cuts, because some of those across-the-board cuts would mean 5-percent cuts in food stamps or 5-percent cuts in Medicaid precisely at a time when the...