I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and...
I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.
We're not a fragile people. We're not a frightful people. Our power doesn't come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don't look...
Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.
Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends.
There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter.
Yes We Can!
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores,...
With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all...
A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.
That's the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful pr...
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their fru...
We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or...
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. I...
Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis recklessness on Wall Street did.
While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensio...
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.