If we are a free country, we have the right to be free.

We live in a country where a small number of people have incredible wealth and power. America has more income and wealth inequality than any other major country.

Who said that think we should normalize relations with Iran tomorrow? I never said that. I think we should move forward as quickly as we can.

People have a right to give a speech. And people have a right to protest. But I'm not a great fan of disrupting people's speeches.

We need to demilitarize local police departments so that they do not look like occupying armies. We want police departments that look like the communities they are serving.

If jazz education in our colleges were free to all it would provide thousands of good jobs in the music industry which has been taken over by corrupt millionaires and billionaires.

I believe, along with Pope Francis and almost all scientists, that climate change is threatening this planet in horrendous ways, and that we have to be aggressive in transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel and defeat the Keystone Pipeline.