I think, the left makes a mistake. If you look particularly at the state levels, violent repeat criminals are not punished enough. The average murderer is sentenced to 17 1/2 years but serves six. The average rapist is sentenced to 10 years but serves about three and a half. The average mugger is sentenced to five years and serves little more than one.

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

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

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

I want to attract the best people into teaching.

I basically believe that until China stop stealing our intellectual property, and until they stop keeping our companies out that do good things, the amount we will gain from export jobs is minimized, and the amount we lose in middle class incomes is maximized.

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