I think raising wages, investing in infrastructure, making sure that people have access to good educations that equip them for the jobs of the future. Those are all agenda items that would help alleviate some of those economic pressures and dislocations that people are experiencing. The problem was I couldn't convince the Republican Congress to pass a lot of them.

Sometimes we take somebody who's been in the trenches and fought the good fight and been steady for granted. Sometimes we act as if never having done something and not knowing what you're doing is a virtue.

We honor those who walked so we could run. We must run so our children soar. And we will not grow weary.

In the past, there have been a range of treaties that divided Congress and every administration was able to get them through.

So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.

I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.