I think Donald Trump is trying to use populist rhetoric to cover up a right-wing agenda.

The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.

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

Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.

I think on this issue more than any other we're going to see sort of a bipartisan longing to get something done, and hopefully you're not going to find the fisticuffs that you would find on lots of other issues. I think you'll be able to glean a sense of progress without us revealing the specifics.

In education, I'm going to try to find what works. One thing I want to do is improve the quality of teachers. There are a lot of people who want to go into teaching; it's fundamentally a very fulfilling profession. But people don't feel they have financial support. We pay starting teachers in particular too little to attract the quality people that we need. I want to make it easier for good people who want to go into teaching to do that.

The only way we're gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.