Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, all the time.

There are resources to help and simple steps that parents, preschools, businesses, and communities can take to help our kids succeed, because we're all in this together, and that's what the Too Small to Fail Initiative is all about.

It is important to learn how to take criticism seriously, but not personally.

I couldn't be a White Sox fan because that was like being a Mets or a Yankees fan.

A man you can bait with a Tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.

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.

Not everyone can march, but everyone can talk. And everyone can reach out, and everyone can vote.