Affirmative action has been good for America.
We need to mend but not to end affirmative action.
I want our children's generation to inherit an America with as much new opportunity as the one into which I was brought ...
When affirmative action is done right, it is flexible, it is fair, and it works.
A good education has always been key to unlocking the promise of tomorrow.
I am resolved that that day will come.
Let me be clear about what affirmative action must not mean and what I won't allow it to be.
Discrimination is not just morally wrong, it hurts everybody.
The job of ending discrimination in this country is not over.
I don't want any Hispanic child in America to feel that his or her race is an impediment to full achievement.
It is a moral imperative, a constitutional mandate, and a legal necessity.