The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process. We have to increase voter turnout and citizen participation so that people know what's going on and demand a government that works for everybody and not just the one percent.

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

If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.

Real freedom must include economic security.

I think Donald Trump understood that there are many millions of people in America, the working middle class, who are really hurting. They are in pain.

I think too many of my Republican friends are into perpetual warfare in the Middle East. And that scares the bejesus out of me.

At the end of the day, if millions of people come together and say, we are not going to be a xenophobic society, we are not going to be throwing millions of Latinos out of this country, we are not going to be a racist society, we're not going to be a sexist society, we will prevail.