If we are enforcing what should be the rules around Medicare and making sure the people are getting the bang for the buck, it's not going to be possible for insurance companies to simply pass on those costs to Medicare recipients, because ultimately it's Uncle Sam that's paying for those services anyway.

I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago].

If we are truly created equal than truly the love we commit to one another must be equal as well, this ruling will strengthen all of our communities by offering to all same sex couples the dignity of marriage across this great land.

I do think Brexit vote speaks to the ongoing changes and challenges that are raised by globalisation.

While the future is unknowable, the winds always blow in the direction of human progress.

This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected.

I do believe, separate and apart from any particular election or movement, that we are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude sort of nationalism or ethnic identity or tribalism that is built around an us and a them.