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.

Children exist in the world as well as in the family. From the moment they are born, they depend on a host of other “grownups” — grandparents, neighbors, teachers, ministers, employers, political leaders, and untold others who touch their lives directly and indirectly.

[Donald Trump] attitude towards our longest defense alliance and NATO, that we should somehow walk away from it.

I'll protect and expand access to no-copay birth control and safe, legal abortion.

If we only stopped to listen to them for a few minutes, kids could tell us that we move too fast, for their good and ours.

I think part of our problem right now in the country is that people feel that nobody listens to them. And that means that they just don't trust anybody in government, anybody in politics, and anybody in the economy.

I remember, particularly, a trip to Bosnia where the welcoming ceremony had to be moved inside because of sniper fire.