There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

I am who I am. You sort of get what you see with me.

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire.

I actually believe in redistribution (of wealth)

Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

While the future is unknowable, the winds always blow in the direction of human progress.

Elections matter and voting counts.