We are reorganizing how we work with state and local governments to make sure that we are not prioritizing families [for deportation], and you are gonna see, I think, a substantial change even as the case works its way through the courts.

I decided to become a community organizer ... Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.

Assault weapons ban reintroduced.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.

I say that is because those are the times where sometimes you feel actually a little bit hurt. Because you feel like saying to these folks, "[Don't] you think if I could do it, I [would] have just done it. Do you think that the only problem is that I don't care enough about the plight of poor people, or gay people, or immigrants, or ...?"

The hard truth is carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades now. And even if we Americans do our part, the planet will slowly keep warming for some time to come.