The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are the people with something to hide.

Going through the legislative process is always better, in part because it's harder to undo.

It is my judgment that had I spent the first two years trying to get a single-payer system, all those folks who now have health insurance that didn't have it would still be uninsured. And those are millions of people whose lives are impacted right now.

Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.

It's the job, I think, of leaders to try to address peoples' real legitimate concerns and channel them in the most constructive ways possible.

This massacre in Orlando is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school or in a house of worship or a movie theater or in a nightclub. And we have to decide if that's the kind of country we want to be. And to actively do nothing is a decision, as well.

We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help.