I'm reaching out to all Americans - Democrats, Republicans, and independents - because we need everybody to help make our country what it should be, to grow the economy, to make it fairer, to make it work for everyone. We need your talents, your skills, your commitments, your energy, your ambition.

I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.

In the very first debate I was asked am I a moderate or a progressive and I said I'm a progressive who likes to get things done. Cherry picking a quote here or there doesn't change my record of having fought for racial justice, having fought for kids rights, having fought the kind of inequities that fueled my interest in service in the first place going back to my days in the Children's Defense Fund.

Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.

Fighting for kids and families has been the cause of my life.

There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.