I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

I'm going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.

Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.

I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.

But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.

I think we could be at a tipping point