Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents, students, pastors, and police officers all over this country who say 'we are not afraid,' and I intend to keep trying, with or without Congress, to help stop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans in our movie theaters, shopping malls, or schools like Sandy Hook.

We can still see God in other people and do our best to help them find their own grace. So that’s what I strive to do and pray to do every day.

The sort of seeing cruelty and callousness of that sort from young people is heartbreaking.

I think that whenever you have got an incoming president of the other side it takes a while for people to reconcile themselves with that new reality.

Rather, my perceptions about how we solve problems in health care or education span across a whole range of areas. And I want to try to capture that complexity.

These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.

People who have health insurance are benefiting in all sorts of ways that they may not be aware of, everything from no longer having lifetime limits on the claims that they can make to seniors getting prescription drug discounts under Medicare to free mammograms.