ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.

I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life.

I get letters from [people getting insurance] right now. "You saved my child's life." "I did not have to sell my home when my wife got sick." And that is what, as a policy maker, I'm trying to achieve during the short period of time that I'm here.

The greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another

There aren't a lot of situations where I look back and I say, The decision I actually made or the course we actually pursued was the wrong course.

We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

Today we're seeing that climate change is about more than a few unseasonably mild winters or hot summers. It's about the chain of natural catastrophes and devastating weather patterns that global warming is beginning to set off around the world.. the frequency and intensity of which are breaking records thousands of years old.