Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.

It should be lifted above partisanship because it's a question of survival. It's a moral issue.

There was never any doubt in our minds that men and women were equal, if not more so.

American democracy has been hacked.

There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.

In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say - must be told.

Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by major emitters in the absence of major legislation. But it's a blunt instrument that is a little more difficult to use than a legislative remedy.