Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.

Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.