I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.

Now Republicans are a more interventionist party than they have been at any time since George W. Bush left office.

If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no civil rights laws in the country.

The Democrats are standing on one side, and the Republicans are playing games on the other. Both sides are playing games.

Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people.

You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat. With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him.

Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.