I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care plan.

We live in a moment when the dream of equal opportunity is within reach.

What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Who you are, what you are, does not change after you occupy the oval office. All it does is magnify who you are. All it does is shine a spotlight on who you are.

I believe that if we stop talking at one another and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done.