“While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans”

The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

We need Democrats and Republicans in Congress to work together to fashion a very comprehensive pushback to Russia, not just the cyber-hacking, but their bribery of officials in Europe, their social media campaign, their overt media campaign.

And here he is recommending the firing of the top cop doing the Russia investigation, in clear violation of what he had, the attorney general, had committed to doing.

The intelligence community is very professional, they do their jobs well, they’re the best intelligence gatherers in the world.

Then the small amount of forces that we would have left there might have slowed this day, but they wouldn’t have prevented it altogether.

Frankly I have much more faith in what they posted than what they say during the course of an interview.

Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King’s faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.

That bomb that took down that Russian airliner may have been the size of a soda can. And that bomb killed more people than all the Paris attackers combined. So this is still a grave threat.

We already know that there are those close to James Comey who have a very different take, if there are tapes, of course, that would be the best evidence of what took place.

Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.

We can’t do it alone. And that has to begin by his acknowledgment of the facts.

When the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally.

An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.

There are perfectly appropriate circumstances to unmask the names of people.

Terrific. Now to win a larceny trial all we have to do is prove how the universe ends.

You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.

Hip-hop has crossed many boundaries and racial barriers, broken them down for people to come together, to listen to the music or come out of their own social ills in each of the countries that it has went to.