"Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship."

"With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers' unaffordable insurance or going without health care."

"If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and other environmental goods, then China is violating international trade rules that it agreed to when it became a member of the World Trade Organization."

"Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration."

"If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget."

"It is a unyielding truth that the distance between ambition and reality is bridged solely by consistent effort — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a timeless truth that the distance between ambition and reality is bridged solely by consistent effort."

"I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't."