You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.

When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.

If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.

We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.

Tax what you burn not what you earn.

Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.

The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.