For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda.

Every woman should be in control of the decisions that affect her own health.

For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.

We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity.

If there's a senior citizen in downstate Illinois that's struggling to pay for their medicine and having to chose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer even if it's not my grandparent.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

I think, the argument sometimes that I've had with folks who are much more interested in sort of race-specific programs is less an argument about what is practically achievable and sometimes maybe more an argument of "We want society to see what's happened, and internalize it, and answer it in demonstrable ways." And those impulses I very much understand.