I have 15 years of executive experience as a big-city mayor and as a governor.

I'm not opposed to free trade if it's fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals.

I think the best campaigns are campaigns of ideas and substance.

I believe that there are new perspectives that are needed in order for us to resolve the problems that we face as Americans and also the problems we face as people on this planet, and I believe that new perspective and new leadership is needed.

Public trust is essential to public safety.

The Center for American Progress rates Maryland as the best state in the nation for women. I couldn't agree more.

Secretary Clinton is perfectly capable of defending her own service in office.

Climate change is transforming the world in profound ways that continue to evolve.

Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.

We must preserve our planet and grow our economy simultaneously. We cannot become more prosperous without the living systems upon which our prosperity depends.

Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.

God doesn't make mistakes and has made each of us in his own image. God is simply love. There should be no fear in love.

We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.

The march of progress must continue.

We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.

The Offshore Wind Energy Act could be not only a jobs creator, but also a history maker.

We are a people of many different religions and many different faiths. The only way forward in a pluralistic society of diverse faiths such as ours is to have laws that protect and respect the freedom of all, equally.

We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.

The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.

Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.

The most valuable investment we can make is in our children's education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn.

Within loyalism and the UVF, there are clearly people who are not just aggravated by the issue around flags or parades. They're aggravated by me and Sinn Fein being in government. They're opposed to the political institutions - there's an inability of a minority within loyalism to accept the concept of equality.

There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace.

We've had a very consistent position down the years. Sinn Fein is not in favour of abortion, and we resisted any attempt to bring the British 1967 Abortion Act to the north.