The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House.

I'm someone who had a deep emotional attachment to 'Starsky and Hutch.'

Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits.

[My mom] had this amazing attitude in the face of everything, including when she got cancer.

If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.

Everybody counts, everybody deserves a chance, everybody has a responsible role to play and we all do better when we work together.

Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it.