The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.

We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.

Thousands die each year because they are uninsured or under-insured.

If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents.

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people, of felons, and that means the NRA leadership.