The tax code rewards corporations for outsourcing jobs, and their profits overseas, instead of investing here in the United States.

We're either going to be dependent on dirty oil from the Gulf or dirty oil from Canada.

We need to wage this war against ISIS from the air, on the ground, and online, in cyberspace.

I feel that at this point in our country's history, it is important that we not reverse marriage equality, that we not reverse Roe v. Wade, that we stand up against Citizens United, we stand up for the rights of people in the workplace, that we stand up and basically say: The Supreme Court should represent all of us. That's how I see the court, and the kind of people that I would be looking to nominate to the court would be in the great tradition of standing up to the powerful, standing up on behalf of our rights as Americans.

It is a violation of human rights when governments declare it illegal to be gay.

We are the United States of America. And it's our job to rein in the excesses of capitalism so that it doesn't run amok and doesn't cause the kind of inequities we're seeing in our economic system. But we would be making a grave mistake to turn our backs on what built the greatest middle class in the history.

Several people have told me that one of the most meaningful events they could attend would be something at the White House with their children.