Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.

Our environment is too important to neglect and it's time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises.

We need to spend a trillion dollars rebuilding our schools, our roads, our basic science and research here in the United States.

I think we all know that world owes an enormous debt to Greece and the Greek people.

But I also want to give them a pathway so that they can earn citizenship, earn a legal status, start learning English, pay a significant fine, go to the back of the line, but they can then stay here and they can have the ability to enforce a minimum wage that they're paid, make sure the worker safety laws are available, make sure that they can join a union.

We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

For the United States of America, the best is yet to come.