I dare to imagine a country where every child I hold in my hands, are all God's children, regardless of the color of their skin, regardless of whether they're boy or girl, regardless of religion, regardless of rich or poor, that every child I hold in my hands, will have the same chance to reach her full potential or his full potential. That is the goodness of our country. That is the essence of the American dream.

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or …

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.

It is not our background that will count but our individual actions and initiatives. Education is the great leveller: irrespective of origin, it places everyon…

People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

In its proper meaning equality before the law means the right to participate in the making of the laws by which one is governed, a constitution which guarantee…