It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.

Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty

Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country.

My staff was very excited for Brisvegas. When I arrived, they advised I needed some XXXX.

You Can't Rest on Your Laurels. Your Own Body of Work Is Yet to Come.

There have been times where, let's say on LGBT issues, when we were trying to end Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and I got the Pentagon and Bob Gates, a Republican holdover from the [George W.] Bush administration, to authorize a study of how you might end Don't Ask, Don't Tell, headed up by Jeh Johnson, who at that time was a council to the Justice Department. And it was going to take a year to conduct that study, issue a report, and figure out how it might be implemented, what effect it would have on unit cohesion and military effectiveness.