Progressives should recognize common morality with religion.

I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and methods to hide the truth.

[American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations

By the way, you know, Mitt Romney and McCain, I don't agree with them, but they would have been okay. I could have been satisfied with them.

When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.

How do we transform mere power into justice, mere sentiment into love?

Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents, students, pastors, and police officers all over this country who say 'we are not afraid,' and I intend to keep trying, with or without Congress, to help stop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans in our movie theaters, shopping malls, or schools like Sandy Hook.