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I am in the habit, like most British people, of holding the door open for people. But in the U.S., people don't understand it. You get odd looks or doors slammed in your face.

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

You never know what doors are going to open up and why they are going to open up. You've got to be ready to walk through them.

Anytime you get to join a group of people you admire and respect, you want to keep those doors open.

I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run.

Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.

Here is what the practical impact of Citizens United means. What Citizens United means is that corporations call hundreds of millions of dollars into television ads, radio ads, and other forms of advertising to defeat those candidates who stand up and take them on.

You know, violence, I think, knocks on everyone's door.

The American people are frustrated.