"Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and c…"

"When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, a…"

"[I] can’t actually imagine a time in which the need for more diversity would ever cease. Affirmative action has been …"

"It has come to my attention that you have now asked an additional question: ‘Does the President have the authority to…"

"Michelle [Obama] always says, ‘When they go low, we go high.’ No. When they [Republicans] go low, we kick them.""

""When I say we, you know, ‘We kick ‘em,’ I don’t mean we do anything inappropriate. We don’t do anything illegal. But…"

"Good afternoon. I would like to take the next few moments to address the two investigations that the Justice Departme…"

"Nearly seven months have passed since the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. That tra…"

"The promise I made when I went to Ferguson and at the time that we launched our investigation was not that we would a…"

"It's hard for me to see how members of al Qaeda could be considered prisoners of war. I think they clearly do not fit…"