I think Americans have every reason to be worried about ISIS and the network of terrorist groups, because they have proven to be sophisticated and effective in wreaking violence and murder in many parts of the world, including in San Bernardino with their somehow connected radicalization of that couple there.

I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman.

I think there's where we can enlist the veterans service organizations, the veterans of America, because, yes, let's fix the V.A., but we will never let it be privatized, and that is a promise.

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

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it. Not Now!

Life is too short to dwell on what might have been.