I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm President of the United States of America.

Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power of language and how it can peel back truths, bring things to the surface. So I learned a lot from fiction.

The notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete.

As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation's resources over a long period of time to make that right.

Any so-called leader who does not take this issue (climate change) seriously or treats it like a joke is not fit to lead

It is very rare I come to an event where I’m like the fifth or sixth most interesting person.

A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now.