Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.