Historically, it is important to try to understand your adversary in order to figure out how they are thinking, what they will be doing, how they will react.

I have been very clear about the necessity for doing whatever is required to move the VA into the 21st century.

I think implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not just police. I think, unfortunately, too many of us in America jump to conclusions about each other.

In fact, [Donald's Trump] cavalier attitude about nuclear weapons is so deeply troubling.

The most important thing I have to say to you today is that hair matters. Pay attention to your hair, because everyone else will.

On healthcare we are the prisoner of our past. The way we got to develop any kind of medical insurance program was during World War II when companies facing shortages of workers began to offer healthcare benefits as an inducement for employment. So from the early 1940s healthcare was seen as a privilege connected to employment. And after the war when soldiers came back and went back into the market there was a lot of competition, because the economy was so heated up.

It takes a village to raise a child.