I've gone through so many of these stages of defeat and loss and victory, the ups and downs, that I know how to handle it.

If it's racist, it's racist. If it's anti-Semitic, it's anti-Semitic. If it's anti-women, it's anti-women. If it's anti-immigrant, it's anti-immigrant, and we need to really strengthen our language, so that it is clear and not mushy.

The press is critical at this time, and if you look at history, this is so critical.

We have to treasure our country, our freedom, the progress we've made, and if we see any of that threatened, we have to respond.

The Democratic Party has awakened. We've not been awake since 9/11, in many ways. We had moments, sporadically, where we woke up. But I think we were so hit by 9/11, as the whole country was, that we didn't get our legs back. It took a while. Now the Democratic Party is back. I've never seen it as united. Sure, we have a ways to go. We have a lot of ground to cover.

It's good I was born in Brooklyn. You learn how to take care of yourself.

I think we have to stop using the expression "alt-right." It's ridiculous. It's racist, fascist, nationalist.