How about we agree upon what our common American values are, which is let's make this a true land of opportunity.

Regardless of zip code, talent and IQ are evenly distributed, so we need to make sure that opportunity is evenly distributed, too.

In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America---and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.

President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values.

The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.

Public schooling fosters our common identity as Americans sharing a land of diversity. It promotes the American ideal of opportunity for all, not just some. It cultivates the civic values of respecting individuals as well as collective responsibility.