Our job is to provide coalition the military equipment that they need; the air support they need; special forces when appropriate. But at the end of the day for a dozen different reasons, not the least of which is that ISIS would like American combat troops on the ground so they could reach out to the Muslim world and say, "Look, we're taking on those terrible Americans."

As an independent, my views, in fact, are a little bit different than many of my Democratic colleagues.

I'm not quite sure,this is the issue that is on the minds of the American people right now, who basically want to make sure that Donald Trump keeps the promises that he made when he said he was not going to cut Social Security and Medicare.

You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.

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

At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of information by email and on the Internet, slowing mail service is a recipe for disaster.

I have known Secretary [Hillary] Clinton for 25 years and respect her very much.