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

I think the American people said, look, you know, we can't control what every government does to its people, but we shouldn't be aiding and assisting a government in having these kinds of repressive prisons. It added to the public outcry against our involvement in Vietnam.

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

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country, and it's got to be addressed. We've got to stop it. It's eroding our politics. It's separating our society into the haves and the have-nots. It's condemning a whole younger set of our population to not be able to enter the middle class. And, it hits hardest in the prairie areas of the United States, our small towns and communities, where the jobs just aren't available and the incomes are low.

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

I've always been for immigration reform; in 2007 I just didn't feel it had enough protections.