I've just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.

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.

We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own

I don't want my generals or my defense secretary or my national-security team to ever feel deploying weapons to kill people as routine or abstract, even if the targets are bad people.

Women can't wait for equal pay. And I won't stop fighting to address this inequality.

Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe

I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the election.