I think talking's important. I think aspirations are critical.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground.

I'm not going to let the government make a profit out of lending money for people to go to college. So we're going to really change this. I see it as an investment, not an expense, and I'm going to treat it that way.

I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.

Everyone should be respected by the law, and everyone should respect the law.

I think the chair`s job is to be fair and I think the job of all of the vice chairs is to make sure that happens. And we have really robust conversations about what balance is, and it`s not easy.

There is desperate education inequality in America, and I think every kid deserves a good teacher and a good school regardless of the ZIP code that he or she lives in.