Certainly any president - Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative - should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.

You know, my name .... comes from the word shomer, guardian, watcher. My ancestors were guardians of the ghetto wall in Chortkov. And I believe Hashem [Orthodox for God] actually gave me that name. One of my roles, very important in the United States senate, is to be a shomer - to be a or the shomer Yisrael. And I will continue to be that with every bone in my body.

What I want to do first with education is my student loan idea. Basically, if you go into teaching and teach for five years, your student loans should be forgiven. It doesn't cost that much.

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

We repeal sanctions, it tells Russia, go ahead and interfere in our elections and do bad things; it tells China, it tells Iran. That would be terrible.

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

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