We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

I hope you don’t listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern.

In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me.

I actually believe in redistribution (of wealth)

There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics...When this country is operating off a common ground, nobody can stop us. But when we're divided, then we end up having a whole lot of self-inflicted problems.

The fact is that I'm also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who, during his campaign, once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried out abortions.