Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined.

We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before.

What we can do is to live out our lives as best we can with purpose, and love, and joy. We can use each day to show those who are closest to us how much we care about them, and treat others with the kindness and respect that we wish for ourselves. We can learn from our mistakes and grow from our failures. And we can strive at all costs to make a better world.

I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are ... Not this time. Not now.

My hope and expectation is that regardless of what Donald Trump said during the campaign, he's going to have to look carefully at the realities when he moves forward.

In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share.

We are not going to be able to rebuild Afghanistan into a Jeffersonian democracy.