I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table. Everyday issues that people are really worried about and focused on.

Politics takes patience, time, listening and endless meetings.

We are all so privileged to be citizens of America, and we all need to be engaged.

Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception.

I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.

We can see beyond the present shadows of war in the Middle East to a new world order where the strong work together to deter and stop aggression. This was precisely Franklin Roosevelt's and Winston Churchill's vision for peace for the post-war period.

Our democracy if self-cleansing. If you don't like it, be a candidate, or support a candidate.