Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break.

I surely remember being in the administration building sitting in long sleepless nights and working with young people to do the right thing. And that is to tell our university, at that time, the University of Chicago, that it was wrong to own and maintain segregated housing. I remember it very well.

Republicans talk a good game about veterans, but when it came to put money on the line to protect our veterans, frankly, they were not there.

Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At a time when scientists tell us we need to reduce carbon pollution to prevent catastrophic climate change, it is absurd to provide massive subsidies that pad fossil-fuel companies' already enormous profits.

I am on the Health Education Labor Committee. That committee wrote the Affordable Care Act. The idea I would dismantle health care in America while we're waiting to pass a Medicare for all is just not accurate.

I intend to introduce legislation that will make police accountable for their actions and limit uses of force in cases where it is unnecessary.

I think the Democratic Party has got to make fundamental choices.