America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.

Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful. ...Right now, if you get on an airplane [to the U.S.] and claim asylum...when you arrive at Kennedy Airport in New York, they will say to you, 'OK, we'll give you a hearing on whether you deserve asylum. Show up in a year.' And two-thirds of the people never show up.

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.

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

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

The currency bill we have would finally do something for China`s rapacious policies.

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.