We were just at the beginnings of a recovery [in 2010]. And the, you know, whoever is president at that point is gonna get hit and his party's gonna get hit. That then means that suddenly you've got a redistricting in which a lot of state legislatures are now Republican. They draw lines that give a huge structural advantage in subsequent elections.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us

In the fight against ISIL, we cannot rely on an Assad regime that terrorizes its people; a regime that will never regain the legitimacy it has lost. Instead, we must strengthen the opposition as the best counterweight to extremists like ISIL, while pursuing the political solution necessary to solve Syria's crisis once and for all.

Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it.

We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

The quicker you resolve the problems with banks and there's transparency in that process, the faster they recapitalize and are able to make investments.

The Iranian people are getting restive because of the challenges that sanctions have posed to their economy.