Get yourself prepared, educationally and emotionally, and develop mental toughness. Don't ever give up.

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs

An ability to compromise is important. That means stepping back and getting the ego out of the way in order to accomplish what you want to get done.

Democrats are fighting for a new direction that includes protecting Social Security as well as making healthcare affordable, bringing down the high cost of gasoline, and making higher education more accessible for all Americans.

A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors.

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

Has he paid his dues? Is he black enough? John Lewis and I were out there marching and organizing sit-ins back in the '60s so that his children and my children would not have to do it. We would have been failures if had to do the same things we did.