It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again.

I am going to ensure that LGBTQ Americans have full equality under the law and address the urgent crisis of violence against transgender women of color.

[The Republicans] all want to see women's rights eroded and for abortion to become illegal again.

Life is not easy for anyone. Sometimes you don't see the challenges on the outside, but every single one of us has both those and everything that goes on inside as well. Give it your all. Dare to be all you can be.

[Donald] Trump has a great capacity to use bluster and bigotry to inflame people.He is becoming ISIS's best recruiter.

I think we're all safer when the police respect the communities they're supposed to serve, and the communities respect the law.

This killer [in Orlando] was interviewed by the FBI three times and I'm not going to second guess what career law enforcement professionals do everyday to defend our nation. But we need to look carefully at this. Should we have a broader database? You know, someone comes to the attention of FBI not once but three times, does that suggest that local law enforcement needs to know.