It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we...

That solves about 95 percent of the cases but the cases that get to the Supreme Court are the five percent that aren’t easily answered and that’s where you fall back on judgment and perspective.

I think a good place to start would be for both Democrats and Republicans to say ? we are willing to experiment and invest on anything that works,

Today, we recognize the simple truth that John Johnson was a part of all of us.

The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart...

Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome — black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky...

No, what’s troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics–the ease with which we are distracted by the petty and trivial, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions,...

In the absence of dogs and hoses there is no immediate, obvious enemy before us, so it’s harder to mobilize a sense of outrage, … Rosa Parks did not just sit down on her own...

I think his legacy can be seen in the African-Americans who have achieved success in corporate board rooms, in starting businesses, I think that my own success as U.S. Senator might not be possible had...

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I’ve got daughters. Nine years old and six years old. First of all, I’m gonna teach them about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them PUNISHED with a baby.

I would like to see him (Bush) reach out to a broader circle of leadership in the African-American community and indicate that what he saw woke him up,

Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we have policies that are accelerating the most destructive trends of the global economy.

This budget tells our veterans that if they want increased funding for the VA they’ll have to pay for it themselves.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

nasionalisme terurai dalam sikap belaka dan bukan program konkret, setumpuk keluhan dan bukan kekuatan yang terorganisasi, gambar dan bunyi yang memadati gelombang udara dan percakapan, namun tanpa perwujudan jasadi.

I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty...

Conservatives may be right when they argue that the government should not try to determine executive pay packages. But conservatives should at least be willing to speak out against unseemly behavior in corporate boardrooms with...

And then, on September 11, the world fractured.It’s beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day and the days that would follow–the planes, like specters, vanishing into steel and glass; the slow-motion cascade...

Some of that means that in your public statements, … you end up trafficking in public platitudes more than you’d want to do at home.

What people want to know is who has a set of concrete plans to help them send their kids to college, or save for retirement.

John Kerry believes in America.

we are a couple of U.S. senators.