When the average Social Security benefit is $1328 a month, and more than one-third of our senior citizens rely on Social Security for Virtually all of their income, our job is to expand benefits, not cut them.

I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with ordinary people and engaging them in the political process.

I think the media and the candidates have got to talk about why the middle class is in decline and why we have massive levels of income and wealth inequality.

Let us wage a moral and political war against the gross wealth and income inequality... ...let us understand that when we stand together, we will always win.

We had the opposition of virtually the entire Democratic leadership in every state in this country.

I will challenge anybody with regard to my record on LGBT issues.

I think our trade policies, for many, many years, have been a disaster. They have benefited corporate America at the expense of working people.