I would love it if everybody in America agreed with me on every issue. I can't get my wife to agree with me on every issue, let alone the American people. It's called democracy. That's what it's about.

People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.

What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives.

We have more people in jail than any other country in Earth, disproportionately Latino and African-American.

Congress doesn't regulate Wall Street. Wall Street regulates Congress.

The decision is I'm going to do everything I can to fight for the working class of this country, the low-income people against income and wealth inequality, do everything we can about climate change.

I happen to respect people who are willing to come under public scrutiny and serve their country.