There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.

Americans have powerfully sensed that we're off track. There is a structural challenge in our economy that needs to be addressed.

There's an enormous amount of corruption, and as one American adviser put it to me, "The police in Afghanistan are thugs. We equip them, we train them, and now they are equipped and trained thugs."

Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.

Real choice is clear information and the right to walk away from a bad deal without leaving your wallet behind.

We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it.

The economy, virtually all the new income has gone to the top 10 percent, and we need to find those areas where we can actually make a change in that. And that includes enhancing manufacturing jobs in this country, it includes the ability to go to community college for free, it includes the ability to have debt-free higher education, it includes career technical education in our high schools. It also includes taking on the pharmaceutical companies on the extravagant prices that they`re charging for the drugs. Americans need to stay healthy.