I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.

Cutting benefits is not the right answer. Raising the retirement age is not the best option.

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

The future is ours to win. But to get there we can't just stand still.

At the constitutional level, what we of course have assured is that women have the ability to make these reproductive decisions up to the point of viability.