The road to some of the darkest moments of history have been paved with the rants of petty demagogues against ethnic minorities for centuries.

I was raised poor, in a tenement building in Union City, New Jersey, the son of Cuban immigrants.

You can have a Second Amendment right, but not a Second Amendment right to an AR-15.

The principles of fairness and equality for working men and women are deeply interwoven within the fabric of our nation's history.

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.

The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal government is responsible for repairing the damage that has been done, which has not been completed yet.

The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties - from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.

In army, I went to Kashmir and did well, which was a challenge. In sports, I went to Olympics at a time when no one believed that we can actually win. Coming into politics was also a challenge as I wanted to push the youth to achieve gold in various fields of life.