I think that people are concerned about the breakdown of the family but they also don't want to see discrimination against gays and lesbians who they work with and they want to be able to make sure that gays can visit each other in hospitals and be able to inherit property.

Health care has become a proxy for a broader set of issues about how much government should be involved in our economy, particularly coming off a huge economic crisis.

In America, one of our challenges, historically, is that we have very low voting rates, even during presidential elections.

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

Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity, until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country.

What matters is how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in making the lives around us better.

I would meet directly with the leadership in Iran.