What we are going to do as Democrats is put together a really strong platform that focuses on jobs and economic issues.

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

When you lose an election, you don't blink, you don't turn away. You look it right in the eye and say, why did we lose?

When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.

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.

If the Saudis were culpable, they should be held accountable. If they had nothing to do with 9/11, they have nothing to fear.

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