Country must confront what he called institutional racism. [We should] create a country which provides economic, social and environmental justice for all.

Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.

Interestingly, a lot of the polling that I see is not along racial lines, but along generational lines. We are doing better and better among younger people, not so well among older people, whether they're African-American, whether they're white or whether they're Latino.

The American people understand that it is grotesquely unfair - we are a society that prides itself on fairness, that prides itself on equal opportunity, and people are looking out and seeing, since the Great Recession of 2008, 99 percent of all new income going to the top 1 percent.

For Democrats to win, they're going to have to address the needs of working people. They're going to have to address the needs of the middle class.

When I was in the House for 16 years, I caucused with the Democrats.

People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.