Every campaign has competing ideas from within. You get more advice than you can take ...

The young black man is on a dangerous trajectory. We need to come up with ideas on how to resolve these issues.

This is more of a victory for the Democratic Party in Maryland to show that there is unity during this upcoming election.

There's no end to anonymous sources who are happy to speak poorly about candidates running for office. I'm not able to change that. But I would say this: I really like where he is in this thing right now.

I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed.

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.