Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

What's good for the very rich might not be good for anybody but them.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.

I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

The only time you should look down at someone is when you are helping them up.

When everyone is included, everyone wins.

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

You can't teach what you don't know. And you can't lead where you don't go.

If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.