Politics is like driving. To go backward put it in R. To go forward put it in D.

That signal's come and gone a lot in my life-time, that prairie progressivism died . I think prairie progressivism is still there. Every once in a while, odd things take place.

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases, or become disabled - and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to try to make them better.

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes.

Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.

I am a Democrat and I love my party and I want them to have good policies and good candidates, so I hope to be supportive in some way, but I don't intend to be any kind of 'godfather' or something like that.