The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

We are confident that the Supreme Court will soon see the direction that this country is headed and enshrine marriage as a constitutional right for all.

We do not owe allegiance to any candidate because they share our party or our color, but because they share our principles and our conscience.

With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our hearts against the poor in this country is what wounds us most broadly.

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.