I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.

I decided to become a community organizer ... Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.

The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed.

The trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources, and hence facilitate some [wealth] redistribution, because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level, to make sure that everybody's got a shot.

The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found.

No country can hide from the dangers of carbon pollution

So I think it's important to understand that your duly elected representatives have been consistently informed about exactly what we're doing.