Letting the free market do whatever it wants. That's not been historically how we grow. We have to invest in education, in rebuilding broadband lines and roads and runways, and it's important that we bring back American manufacturing and regulations to prevent consumers from being cheated.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States.

Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.

Of course I have got concerns. Donald Trump and I differ on a whole bunch of issues.

I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.

The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.