America is best when we work in collaboration with our allies. America is best when we are actually standing up to evil in this world. And ISIS, make no mistake about it, is an evil in this world.

Despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.

People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.

If we have a Democratic Senate I think the Republican Party will wake up to the reality that their opposition to comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship is a losing proposition. That Donald Trump's inflammatory rhetoric and derogatory comments do not really work in a national election. And I think we'll have a better chance to actually get something done.

When it comes to foreign policy, it is important to remember that politics stops at the water's edge.

It is time to pick a side.Either we stand with the gun lobby or we join the president and stand up to them.

I've gone to work, I've raised a child, and I've spent 30 years trying to better the lives of children and families. But I often return to one thing I said way back then - that politics is the art of making possible what appears to be impossible.