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What Is The American Dream? The American Dream Is One Big Tent. One Big Tent. And On That Big Tent You Have Four Basic Promises: Equal Protection Under The Law, Equal Opportunity, Equal Access, And Fair Share.

For Me, Barack Obama's Election Was A Milestone Of The Most Extraordinary Kind. On The Day He Was Elected I Felt Such Hope In My Heart. I Thought We Were Seeing The Beginning Of A New Era Of Equal Opportunity Across Race And Gender Such As America Had Never Known Before.

It Is Time For Us To Turn To Each Other, Not On Each Other.

When We Were Hit On 9/11 It Took Us A Few Weeks To Get The Coalition Together Because [george] Bush Had Come In With A Kind Of Narrow Ideology, Looking At The World, I'd Say, Through A Keyhole And Not Through A Door.

I Was Born In A Slum, But The Slum Wasn't Born In Me.