Get people back to work. A long-term program to rebuild our infrastructure can be one way that is better for us than sending troops to fight in other lands.

The U.S. immigration system has degraded over the last 20 years leading to indiscriminate raids, detention without due process, worker exploitation and families being separated.

Comprehensive immigration reform must be humane, restoring our country’s integrity to being both a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws.

I support the right of law-abiding citizens to own guns for self-defense and sport. Law-abiding citizens should never be prevented from keeping and bearing arms for these very legitimate purposes.

I support criminal background checks on all gun sales by all firearms sellers at gun shows. I will support legislation to close the gun show loophole.

If criminals have a right to a lawyer, I think working Americans should have a right to a doctor. I believe there is nothing more fundamental than the right to see a doctor when you’re sick.

Climate change is the most serious challenge facing humanity.

We can clean up our environment, stabilize the climate, create good new jobs, boost our economy, and reduce our dependence on non-renewable energy, all at the same time, by clean and sustainable energy sources and more local food production.

My position on the Iraq and Afghanistan "wars" is informed by Washingtonians who are actually putting their lives on the line, rather than the Pentagon types and oil business executives to whom the incumbent listens.

I do not believe that military action there can achieve the stated goal of eliminating the terrorist networks.

Require publicly-financed campaigns, to limit the power that corporations exercise over campaigns, then over the officials which they elect, and paper ballots as the base of verifiable elections.