The companies move labor to the lowest-cost markets. And so I don`t - I used to support these agreements. In the Congress, I lost the AFL-CIO endorsement a few years because I supported them. But when middle class incomes are declining, these agreements don`t work well for America.

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

I'm still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people's lives better.

I think we could be at a tipping point

Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care.

We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.

The Democratic Party was always there on crime, but in the past we let the ideologues on the left dominate. The Republicans may still let the ideologues on the right dominate.