I understand what a normal political speech is. You get up there, tell a few jokes, you have the flags behind you, and you speak for 10 or 15 minutes in broad generalities.

I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.

Who do you think controls the Republican Party? Big money controls the Republican Party. This is where their campaign contributions come from.

I think, clearly, we got to work closely with China to resolve the serious problems we have, and I worry about Putin and his military adventurism in the Crimea and the Ukraine.

I've run for statewide office plenty of times, and people know me.

I'm not a Democrat, I'm an Independent, but I caucus with the Democrats.

Should a small business or a large business be able to pollute the water or the air or the food? No, I hope you don't believe that.