The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.

I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.

The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.