This disaster was a powerful metaphor for what's gone on for generations.

A few weeks ago, I attended a service at First A.M.E. Church in Los Angeles to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the LA Riots. After a jury acquitted 4 police officers of beating Rodney King—a beating that was filmed and flashed around…

We understand it because we get the sense today that politics has become a business and not a mission.

This journey teaches us that they are going to keep driving that wedge; they are going to keep the distraction going.

We can diminish poverty if we approach it in two ways: by taking mutual responsibility for each other as a society, and also by asking for some more individual responsibility to strengthen our families.

The leaders in Washington have forgotten President Kennedy's call to remember that 'here on Earth God's work must truly be our own.'

And I promise you this—this health care plan will be signed into law by the end of my first term in office as President.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it. With a uniting faith, with a God powerful enough to empower us—we can take the bullets out.

If too many of our kids don't have health insurance; it's time to take the bullet out.

Ministers, it's time to unite behind our faith and help all of God's children around the world and here at home realize that we are all surgeons. Our faith, the word and his will are the instruments we need to take the bullets out.

Our God is big enough for that.

Are we our brother's keeper, our sister's keeper?

So, you're about four-and-a-half years late on leadership on this issue.

The fact is, is that I opposed this war from the start. So you're about four-and-a-half years late on leadership on this issue.

Probably what we're going to be doing is more off the record steps that aren't scheduled, so that I can just hop into a diner and sit down at the counter and start having conversations.

The Illinois senator wants universal health care, largely paid for by the government and employers.

It is time to bring this war to a close.

as a college education becomes ever more imperative for economic success, both for individual citizens and for our Nation, a growing number of African-American students enroll in colleges whose mission includes a focus on educating…

I wish to comment on the visit of Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi to Washington. This visit comes at an important time for the U.S.-China relationship and highlights the enormous stakes involved. As I have said in the past, China's rise offers…

last year, I spoke at one of the marches in Chicago for comprehensive immigration reform. I looked out across the faces in the crowd. I saw mothers and fathers, citizens and noncitizens, people of Polish and Mexican descent, working…

I just introduced this bill on nonproliferation on nuclear weapons that are out there, loose nukes in former Soviet territories. I was working with my Republican colleague, Dick Lugar, to introduce this bill. I was excited about it.

Maturity does not come from any one occasion - it emerges as a quality of character.

At a time when America finds itself at a crossroads, facing challenges we haven't seen in decades, we need to hold on to this idea more than ever.

Take some risks in your life.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition.