I think we should be talk about what we want to do for the country. But if we're going to get into labels, I don't think it was particularly progressive to vote against the Brady Bill five times.

We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability.

Unfortunately, race still determines too much, often determines where people live, determines what kind of education in their public schools they can get, and, yes, it determines how they're treated in the criminal justice system.

Our goal is to make it easier for everyone to do better.

Most of the movies about the future show aliens descending from outer space determined to blow up the world, and somehow they always begin or end with Washington D.C.

I think people need to remember what the situation was when President [Barack] Obama came into office.

There is no formula that I'm aware of for being a successful or fulfilled woman today.