The government has to treat all citizens equally. I am a strong supporter not of a weak version of civil unions, but of a strong version, in which the rights that are conferred at the federal level to persons who are part of the same-sex union are compatible. When it comes to federal rights, the over 1,100 rights that right now are not being given to same-sex couples, I think that's unacceptable.

I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia...The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days.

Now, if you have or had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really liked that plan, what we said was you can keep it if it hasn't changed since the law passed.

Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.

I'm a strong believer in strong encryption.

I think that we've had an economy that's been out of balance for too long. So the general principle of raising taxes on higher income Americans, like myself, and providing relief to those who haven't benefited as much from this new global economy, I think is a sound one.

The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born.