I don’t understand how you could have a situation where you’ve got several days’ notice of an enormous hurricane building in the Gulf Coast, you know that New Orleans is 6 feet below sea level....

Too many children have needlessly suffered from lead-paint poisoning, and we’ve already waited far too long to take action to protect them.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

We hang on to our values, even if they seem at times tarnished and worn; even if, as a nation and in our own lives, we have betrayed them more often that we care to...

Hope is not blind optimism. It’s not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It’s not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is...

faith doesn’t mean that you don’t have doubts… [you] still experience the same greed, resentment, lust, and anger that everyone else experienced… the lines between sinner and saved [are] more fluid; the sins of those...

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn’t, couldn’t end there. At least that’s what I would choose to believe.

When students participate in debate, they learn to study issues in depth and from perspectives, a skill I use everyday in the Senate.

You can’t fight a war in Iraq that’s costing upwards of $200 billion and rebuild New Orleans and try to deal with all of the other domestic needs that we have and then cut taxes...

The encouraging thing is that in the aftermath of this fiasco everybody is outraged and the generosity of white suburban Republicans as well as black liberal Democrats indicates that the country wants better from its...

What remains is the need to review claims that might have been denied, particularly in Illinois, so that we can close that imbalance…

To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too.

I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep...

They, they, they. That was the problem with people like Joyce. They talked about the richness of their multicultural heritage and it sounded real good, until you noticed that they avoided black people. It wasn’t...

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms,...

You don’t have to choose sides. Clearly, there were failures on the part of the state and local government as well, … To speak the truth is incredibly powerful.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

I very much feel like the novice and pupil, … I’m spending most of my time listening as opposed to trying to interject myself into the process.

We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a tolerant people even as racial, religious, and cultural tensions roil...

And that brings me to one last point. I’ve got a simple message for all the dedicated and patriotic federal workers who have either worked without pay, or who have been forced off the job...

I am very impressed with his intellect, … He strikes me as a good and decent person but he is still following instructions, which is to say as little as possible on some core issues...

without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace and earn the respect of the world.

A thorough, multifaceted nonproliferation strategy is essential to fully defend the American people. We urge you to keep these critical initiatives foremost in importance and funding allocation.

We’re not going to baby sit a civil war.

But by the end of two years, most have either changed careers or moved to suburban schools – a consequence of low pay, a lack of support from the educational bureaucracy, and a pervasive feeling...