These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.

What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.

Let's not build the policy around the abuse. That's not good policy. That's actually bad policy. Build the policy around the aspiration point. That's what we need to do when we're seeing abuse online.