We are Americans, We have the right to participate and debate any administration.

Now, Florida laws do not regulate assault weapons or large capacity ammunition magazines. Doesn't even require a permit to purchase a gun or register it or be licensed. So if we don't have action on the federal level that would have set off the alert, it will be difficult to interrupt the plans of someone like this who clearly, by the time he went and purchased these weapons.

Gay rights are human rights.

I've been in favor of getting rid of carried interest for years, starting when I was a senator from New York.

I mean, I'm a big believer in talking to people when you can and trying to solve problems when you can.

In my own country, many of the movies in recent years express our innate fears about what awaits us. They are apocalyptic visions that leave only a few people on earth-whole cities surviving under domes because we have depleted our natural resources. And often in these movies, for reasons that I question, we have space aliens who are always blowing up Washington, D.C., and the White House.

We have to build an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top. That means we need new jobs, good jobs, with rising incomes.