Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

We measure morality by what happens. Not what is intended.

Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.