If you look at what the factors were going into the decision, of course there are competing interests and values. And one of our values is we bring everybody home off the battlefield the best we can. It doesn't matter how they ended up in a prisoner of war situation... It does not matter.

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.

The economy is rigged in favor of those at the top.

It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.

The people of New York took a big chance on me. And I'm well aware of that.

What you are talking about is retroactive classification. And the reason that happens is when somebody asks or when you are asked to make information public, I asked all my emails to be made public. Then all the rest of the government gets to weigh in.

We're living in a technological world. You cannot tell me we can't do a better job getting that information.