If you look at the newspapers here - the Washington papers - most of the discussion deals with campaign gossip.

I don't consider myself a pariah.

If you look at our records, I stood up to corporate America time and time again. I went to Mexico. I saw the lives of people who were working in American factories and making $0.25 an hour.

Don't stay in one place for eight or nine hours.

Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a much harder time accessing a dentist than other groups of Americans.

What I do believe absolutely is that in the middle of a recession, the American middle class and working class needs a tax relief.

We can`t allow racism and xenophobia to gain traction.