I have long maintained the military budget is not a jobs bill... and will continue to support the lowest budget possible.

If being an advocate of peace, justice, and humanity toward all human beings is radical, then I'm glad to be called radical. And if it is radical to oppose the use of 70 percent of federal monies for destruction and war, then I am a radical.

I was part of the peace movement and part of the civil rights movement. You know what we heard? 'The majority of people don't support you.'

I have been a lot of 'firsts' on the national political stage, including the first African American congressman from the Bay Area and one of the first Democratic Socialists in Congress.

I've never loved spending time on the machines at the gym. But I have discovered an exercise regimen I can dedicate myself to: yoga. It's changed my body.

Why do we not have online voting? There's a security system in place already - on our cellphones. We already use biometrics to log into our banking. We use it to log into our health records. Why can't we have online safe and secure voting?

Being a fitness enthusiast, I try to stay away from overindulgence. I make sure my family eats healthy, too.

The work that Partners in Health do in Haiti benefits the whole world.