My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.

My relationship with Silicon Valley and the tech community historically has been really good. Many of these folks are my friends.

Public school system status quo is indefensible.

The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they're going to fall behind.

The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response

I refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. I'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me, making over $250,000, aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes.

We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions.