The issue is to trying to figure out why we end up spending so much more than other countries.

It is not good enough to say, "Well, hey, I vote every two years. I vote every four years." That's fine, but that is not good enough.

At a time when the average student is graduating from a four-year college $27,000 in debt, when hundreds of thousands of capable young people no longer see college as an option because of high costs and when the U.S. is falling further and further behind our economic competitors in terms of the percentage of young people graduating from college, no agreement should be passed which, over a period of years, makes a bad situation worse and will make college even less affordable than it is today.

This is what I would ask of the American people, and that is, and the media does not do this terribly often - put things in contact.

Message to the billionaire class: You can't have it all!

I'm not really opposed to people changing their minds. I'm much more concerned with people who never change their minds no matter what new information is available.

I am proud of the campaign that we ran. Obviously, I wish we could have done a little bit better.