America is a great country. We are so wealthy. But our one remaining challenge is to fulfill the potential of all our people. And the only way we can do that is to try to bring everybody together to a higher place.
I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table. Everyday issues that people are really worried about and focused on.
Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.
One of the big mistakes Republicans made with the Contract with America is that they tried to do too much too fast, and people revolted against it.
Every proposal I’m making, every idea I’m advancing has a single, central purpose: to revive a failing economy and give working Americans the help and security they need.
I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday.
I’ve always had good energy; I’ve always had good health.
Those who have prospered and profited from life’s lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.
I’m running for president because I’ve had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.
When I’m president, we’ll have executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day.
Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception.
I share the administration’s goals in dealing with Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction.