George H.W. Bush: “I am just delighted to see all of you here in the Rose Garden to celebrate a wonderful thing and to honor four people of…”

But he hasn't heard my latest proposal. The bottom 99 percent will do well when they get to split Dick Cheney's stock options.

I think you are engaging in the soft bigotry of low expectations.

This means that people of every race, religion, ethnicity can be fully and equally American. It means that bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed.

I want to thank Senator Cardin for his tremendous leadership, for years, on human rights issues.