Quotes from Jack Schlossberg

Most of the Republican Party denies climate change and has fought all efforts to address it.

The Profile in Courage Award recognizes elected officials who choose to do what is right, not what is easy, so that we might learn from their example. Each time we give the award, we bear witness to the past for the sake of the future.

While Democrats may never adopt the policies of Ronald Reagan, they should follow his golden rule of politics closely. Reagan adamantly instructed his party members to never publicly criticize another Republican.

Climate change threatens the future of life on this planet.

No matter what political cause compels us, we should always feel as though it's being threatened. We should use these causes, whatever they are, to bring people together and get each other excited about our role, so we feel like we can't stop and won't stop.

Harvard Law School is great. I'm lucky to be here. It's a really difficult, intense experience.

Throughout history, groups of Americans have attacked immigrants who fled danger and destruction at home and arrived in America hoping for the opportunities those of us born here are lucky enough to enjoy.

The more government transparency, the better.

Electing the first Catholic president, my grandfather, in 1960, did not mean that religious intolerance disappeared from our land.

I love making jokes on the Internet.

Electing the first African-American president was a tremendous accomplishment, but it hasn't erased racism.

If the Kennedys had been barred from entering America after fleeing Ireland during the famine, my grandfather never would have been president.

Throughout his presidency, my grandfather made it clear that he alone could fix nothing; that he alone had no answers. He had the courage to plainly admit America's shortcomings, to then lay out bold plans to address those problems and to ask his fellow Americans for help in solving them.

In South Carolina, the Confederate flag flies high on countless flagpoles. Those who defend this practice by saying it is part of Southern culture are lying to themselves.

Obama has acted aggressively on the issue most important to my generation: climate change.

I love that America represents a beacon of hope and opportunity in a world of uncertainty.

Obama set a record number of deportations of illegal immigrants in 2011, but that fact alone is misleading. Obama has spoken in favor of and has urged Congress to pass the DREAM Act, a bill that would allow young undocumented immigrants to stay in America, their home, and achieve citizenship by going to college or serving in the military.

President Kennedy's life and death represent both what is possible in America, and all of the work left undone.

Every year, at every level of government and in every corner of our nation, elected officials are confronted with difficult decisions. The right answers aren't always obvious, and the effects aren't always clear.

I've always been in an environment saturated with Democrats, and because we aren't constantly challenged, we feel little urgency, we struggle to be enthusiastic and we can get lazy.

I do love a good salad, so Sweetgreen has been great. But my favorite Cambridge restaurant overall is Darwin's - that's the greatest restaurant of all time.