We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.

A good GI bill would increase the recruit pool.

It's time to put country ahead of party. It's time to put the next generation ahead of the next election.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

Trump is not somebody who`s fit to be president in any circumstances. I would feel deeply frustrated, not because anything he said about me, but because I would fear for the future of our country.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life.