I wouldn't advise [people] to be silent.

We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.

We were just at the beginnings of a recovery [in 2010]. And the, you know, whoever is president at that point is gonna get hit and his party's gonna get hit. That then means that suddenly you've got a redistricting in which a lot of state legislatures are now Republican. They draw lines that give a huge structural advantage in subsequent elections.

Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

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

Jason Rezaian is coming home. A courageous journalist for The Washington Post who wrote about the daily lives and hopes of the Iranian people, he's been held for a year and a half. He embodies the brave spirit that gives life to the freedom of the press. Jason has already been reunited with his wife and mom.

I know that gaps can be closed. And they can be closed substantially, more than I think we believe.