The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

Bush-McCain stategy in Iraq is policy to stay, not to win.

I think that our own crisis of democracy is in its own way affecting our ability to leverage in the same way that we used to in the world.

I want to fully fund education, No Child Left Behind, special-needs education. And that's how we're going to be more competitive, by making sure our kids are graduating from school and college.

Those who deny the science or choose excuses over action are playing with fire.

As a public person, I've always tried to reflect what is embodied in our defining ideals as a nation about equality and fairness and justice and so forth.

If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert.