Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.

I want to attract the best people into teaching.

Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.

I don't think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It's a waste of resources.

We repeal sanctions, it tells Russia, go ahead and interfere in our elections and do bad things; it tells China, it tells Iran. That would be terrible.

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

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.