There are some exceptions: Chicago, my hometown, in particular. But overall in the country this is a much safer place than it used to be.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

Every major world religion has identified marriage as between a man and a woman.

Iran was nearing completion of a new reactor capable of producing plutonium for a bomb.

The rise in health care costs since Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act was passed, have been at their lowest rate in 50 years. Those savings have extended the Medicare trust fund by 11 years. So we've got a baseline of facts.So it is true theoretically that all that progress can be undone, and suddenly 20 million people or more don't have health insurance.

Public school system status quo is indefensible.

Just from a political perspective, do you think the president of the United States going into re-election wants gas prices to go up higher? Look, here's the bottom line with respect to gas prices: I want gas prices lower because they hurt families.