"I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism' that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights."
"I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked."
"I support engagement, diplomacy, and trade with Cuba, China, Vietnam, and many countries with less than stellar human rights records, because I believe that once enslaved people taste freedom and see the products of capitalism, they will become hungry for freedom themselves."
"Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism."
"I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle."
"In 1979, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 in Smith v. Maryland that a few days' worth of phone records for a single individual were not protected by the Fourth Amendment. The NSA today, though, collects hundreds of millions of phone records from hundreds of millions of Americans without an individualized warrant."
"General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata."
"I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying."
"How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked."
"I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty."
"Bulk collection of phone records didn't find or stop the Tsarnaev brothers from the massacre in Boston. In fact, one might argue that all of the money spent on bulk collection takes money away from human analysts that might have noticed the older brother's trip to become radicalized in Chechnya."
"Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people."
"The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice."
"The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy."
"Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot."
"The NSA should keep close watch on suspected terrorists to keep our country safe - through programs permitting due process, the naming of a suspect, and oversight by an accountable court."
"Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease."
"We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system."
"I believe that most police are conscientious and want only to provide safety for us."
"It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday."
"In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians."
"Michael Brown's death and the suffocation of Eric Garner in New York for selling untaxed cigarettes indicate something is wrong with criminal justice in America."
"For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds."
"When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage."
"Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day."
