When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.

And as husbands and fathers and brothers, we have to step up - because every girl’s life matters. Every daughter deserves the same chance as our sons. Every woman should be able to go about her day - to walk the streets or ride the bus - and be safe, and be treated with respect and dignity. She deserves that.

Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.

People'd be like, "Oh, spending taxpayer money." It's like, "No, no, I actually I'm paying for all of this. The only thing I don't pay for is Secret Service and an airplane."

If war explodes in Sudan, it could have a destabilizing effect that creates more space for terrorist activity that could eventually be directed at our homeland.

For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.