I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.

When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets. We know Mitt Romney never met a tax haven he didn't like. But his new favorite tax haven is actually not the Cayman Islands - its Paul Ryan's budget.

The public knows how many good things there are as part of the Affordable Care Act. The Republicans say they're going to repeal. They don't know what to replace it with.

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

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.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

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