I had this radical idea that the police should obey the law. My view was that any human system without adequate checks and balances will tend towards corruption and abuse. That's why you have meat inspectors. Not because you hate butchers, but because of an understanding of human nature.

The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Those communities that were locked out of the last century's pollution-based economy must be locked into the new, clean and renewable economy. Our youth need green-collar jobs, not jails.

There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.

There's the God within and the God without, and you have to attend to the alignment of the two of them.

We actually need conservatives to be better conservatives and we need liberals to be better and stronger liberals.

Steve Bannon is the biggest threat to democracy that we've faced since the Civil War, but in the Civil War the champion of democracy was in the White House. So, even then, we were probably in less danger as a country than we are right now.

When somebody comes along and says, "I think Washington, DC, sucks," that's not wrong.