That we could live in a country with no rules for the rich, no rights for the poor, and no middle class to speak of, is wrong; it's a crime against the next generation and we've got to do something about it.

I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney.

Clean energy independence should be an area of common ground.

If [Donald] Trump throws 20 million off of health care, that's going to be - if he handles this badly - and it's very hard to handle it right, then that's a - a huge advantage in the mid-terms for us.

For me, I think that the struggle around how to deal with Islam in the United States is the defining moral struggle of this half of the new century.

Americans need to see people who are honestly trying to learn from each other, even as we make our own points powerfully and fight for our own values and policies.

Government needs to do two things: put a price on carbon and invest heavily in new technologies.