I'm a Catholic, raised a Catholic. I was an altar boy. Religion has been a huge part of my life. It helped lead me through a war, leads me today.

The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.

We need to talk to all the players in the Middle East, not because we agree with them, but because they play a role.

I look forward to standing up and holding George Bush accountable for pushing seniors off of Medicare into HMOs.

I think the world is safer without Iran with a nuclear weapon. The world has got the potential to be safer if we fully implement the Paris agreement.

I came into public life during the 1960s when a whole bunch of us believed in our ability to change the world. And we did a lot of things.

We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.