That is what Americans do. We face a challenge -- no matter how great -- because we know that on the other side there is always hope.

So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, "What if?"

The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.

The country and the Congress were misled into war.

We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.

Every reform needs examples more than advocates