What we do right now, today, matters.

I think the question of abortion is one that should be left for the states to decide.

[Bashar] Assad has made a series of choices ever since then that is literally destroying his country.

No one is going to question my commitment to the defence of our nation. I don't know what it is these Republicans, who didn't serve in any war, have against those of us who are Democrats who did.

I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.

I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.

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