We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don’t learn the importance of anything until it’s snatched from our hands.

The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that's all I care about.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.

I’m not some sort of blind slave to the president. I got elected without the president’s endorsement, and I think that has served me really well.

If we don’t have free speech, then we just don’t have a free country. It’s as simple as that. If this most fundamental right is allowed to perish, then the rest of our rights and liberties will topple just like dominoes. One by one, they’ll go down.

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

As the Democratic Party, we have a lot of work to do to make up for our failures in the past. We got crushed in this last election.

In the past, human progress had to come at the cost of the environment. If we wanted energy, we had to burn wood or we had to burn fossil fuels. If we wanted to grow more food, we had to expand farmland, often at the cost of forests. But technology and innovation means we're very quickly decoupling these impacts, such that this conflict is no longer true.

The likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.