For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.

How do we transform mere power into justice, mere sentiment into love?

We ask our men and women in uniform to leave their families, our guardsmen and reservists to leave their jobs. We ask you to fight, to sacrifice, to risk your lives for your country. The last thing you should have to do is fight for a job when you come home.

It continues to be my strong belief that the way we are going to make sure that everybody feels a part of this global economy is not by shutting ourselves off from each other, even if we could, but rather by working together more effectively than we have in the past.

Elections matter and voting counts.

We have to all shoulder the responsibility for keeping the planet habitable, or we're going to suffer the consequences - together.

In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology