You can't have responsibility and you can't have us living up to our ideals unless it's based on a fairly common acceptance of truth, of what is true - what is the truth here?

We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.

I know something about aircraft carriers for real.

America has an ability to try to make some things happen that other countries don't necessarily have.

It's the [George Bush] president's fiscal policies that have driven up the biggest deficits in American history. He's added more debt to the debt of the United States in four years than all the way from George Washington to Ronald Reagan put together.

I get always a little uptight when I hear politicians say how exceptional America is.

The world has to save Syria. I mean, this has dramatic implications for the entire region, globally.