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" We're a nation of hope, of high ideals. "

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" I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am. "

" I don't know what the strategy will be in Washington. The reality is, is, I have got to go down there, as my mentor, as people like Bill Bradley have told me to do, get to know your colleagues on both sides of the aisle, recognize that they, too, beat with the same heart and the same type of blood. "

" The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple. "

" Are there any monuments built to demagogues? I just don't think so. "

" What most Americans don't realize is a lot of the challenges we're struggling with today are the result of conscious housing policies. "

" No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose to love, that if you are an American - first generation or fifth - one who is willing to work hard, play by the rules and apply your God-given talents - that you should be able to find a job that pays the bills. "

" In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship. "

" Life's too short not to try different things and to see what works for you and your body. "

" If we're concerned about climate change as a country, we should have policies that make sure our great-grandchildren have a planet that's healthy and strong. "

" What we need to do is understand that we have to love each other, that we have to see each other have worth and dignity and value. "

" I am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across the political spectrum. "

" I want to be myself. I want to be as authentic as possible. "

" I'm very knowledgeable of the challenges before me. "

" You've got to be one that, wherever you are, like a flower, you've got to blossom where you're planted. You cannot eliminate darkness. You cannot banish it by cursing darkness. The only way to get rid of darkness is light and to be the light yourself. "

" I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive. "

" My family is no different from yours. We may be different from the geography that we come from. Some of you all may pray differently than I do, some of you all may be from a different ethnicity, but we all have the same story. "

" I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark. "

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" Food is at the core of our lives in ways we don't always think about - how it affects our environment, how it affects our health and well-being, how it affects the expense of society, the expense of government. "

" You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation. "

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" Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism. "

" It's incredibly flattering to be a U.S. senator, which I want to stay at for a long time. "

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" I am a geek nerd who happened to have a temporary period of jockiness. "

" I'm going to have setbacks and failures; I'm not going to see change right away all of the time or most of the time. But everybody I've ever respected has failed at one thing or another. I've definitely fallen on my face. But I've also had a comparatively easy life. "

" Let's not judge. Let's draw inspiration from each other's stories - successes and failures - and realize we're all connected. "

" It takes too much energy to hate. "