America's nurses are the beating heart of our medical system.

Iran was nearing completion of a new reactor capable of producing plutonium for a bomb.

I also believe that if we're serious about change, we need to have a real discussion about public financing for congressional elections.

I get letters from [people getting insurance] right now. "You saved my child's life." "I did not have to sell my home when my wife got sick." And that is what, as a policy maker, I'm trying to achieve during the short period of time that I'm here.

There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted, 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics.

My expectation would be that if we can begin discussions soon, shortly after the Iranian elections, we should have a fairly good sense by the end of the year as to whether they are moving in the right direction.

No one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hand of the person they love.