Government without a tough and vibrant media is not an option for the United States of America.

Teddy Roosevelt supported a progressive income tax. If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can't, what's the big deal for me to say, 'I'm going to pay a little bit more'? That is neighborliness.

The countries who out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow.

For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change.

And I do not want, and I will not accept, a deal in which I am asked to do nothing, in fact, I'm able to keep hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional income that I don't need, while a parent out there who is struggling to figure out how to send their kid to college suddenly finds that they've got a couple thousand dollars less in grants or student loans.

Fighting for what you think is right is always worth it.

So many of my staff is young enough that they're going to do amazing things. And I'm going to be helping them try to do them.