May we help more than we hurt, may we seek to understand more than be understood and may we love more than we judge.

We now know from a Princeton study that Superfund sites are causing higher rates of birth defects. We now know that there's no excusing the lack of moral urgency to do something about this environmental crisis. We see Flint, Michigan, for example, and the attention it's gotten, but what most Americans don't seem to realize is that this lead problem is not confined to just Flint. There are over 3,000 jurisdictions that have twice the lead levels in people's blood than Flint does. We're now seeing more people being exposed to the truth about environmental injustice in our country.

The only thing that weakens worry is work, so I will be working for Marie Corfield

If you want the things people don't have, you have to do the things other people will not do.

The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere.

Here, we have a country that is making its veterans, people who are struggling with post-traumatic stress, people who are struggling with depression, who often they're only hope is their access to marijuana to treat these illnesses, and here we are criminalizing them for doing what's necessary to stabilize their lives as a result of their service. This is not who we are as a country. We are better than this.

The change we seek for our nation is not the choice of an individual but must be the calling of a country.