Congress should get the job done.

If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.

I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.

The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable.

I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives.

Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction.

We were what you would call a poor family, but we were rich in so many things. We did family things together. We always had dessert, even if it was just Jell-O. So, I never knew I was poor.

I wish the city of San Francisco, bastion of liberalism, were more innovative when it comes to how to spread the wealth.