I'm still that kid that worked at Subway and Target.

For the son of immigrants to run for elected office, not even a generation after my parents got here, that's what makes America a great place.

Our most polluted neighborhoods are disproportionately home to Latinos, African Americans, and other communities of color.

We must continue to honor America's commitment to keeping families together and not turn our backs on refugees and asylum seekers.

And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.

Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.

Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.

Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.