You have to be an optimist to be in politics.

The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers

If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, "You can't do this. Write an op-ed."

If I can make a generalization, men get into politics because, from the time they're little boys, they've been wanting to be President.

Nothing is alarmist with Donald Trump because you don't really know what he's going to do.

Our message will be that we're going to make federal government buildings a model - an energy-efficient model - and also start matching grants for cities and counties so that they can also do the same with their government buildings.

We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.