The Gulf War Was Like Teenage Sex.

The Burning Issue Of Our Time Is The Growing Inequality In Income And Wealth In Our Country, And It's Got To Be Addressed. We've Got To Stop It. It's Eroding Our Politics. It's Separating Our Society Into The Haves And The Have-nots. It's Condemning A Whole Younger Set Of Our Population To Not Be Able To Enter The Middle Class. And, It Hits Hardest In The Prairie Areas Of The United States, Our Small Towns And Communities, Where The Jobs Just Aren't Available And The Incomes Are Low.

It Is Long Past Time To Eliminate Bigotry In The Workplace And To Ensure Equal Opportunity For All Americans. It Is Time To Make Clear That Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender Americans Are First Class Citizens. They Are Full And Welcome Members Of Our American Family And They Deserve The Same Civil Rights Protections As All Other Americans. It Is Time For Us To Prohibit Discrimination Based On Sexual Orientation And Gender Identity. Such Discrimination Is Wrong And Should Not Be Tolerated.

[a]s We Celebrate 75 Years Of The Minimum Wage, We Must Also Recognize That It Is No Longer Achieving Its Potential Impact In Our Economy Or For America's Working Families. Every American Deserves The Chance To Build A Better Life For His Or Her Family - And Raising The Minimum Wage Will Provide That Opportunity.

I've Always Been For Immigration Reform; In 2007 I Just Didn't Feel It Had Enough Protections.

I Don't Know If There's Any Secret Recipe. Just A Lot Of Hard Work. Pay Attention To Your Constituents. I Always Had A Great Iowa Staff That Did All My Great Constituent Service Work. And I Found That People Would Forgive Me For A Lot Of My "liberal Sins" Because I Paid Attention To The Home Front.