The thing I'd want people to say about me is that, in some way, I helped bring the Senate and the Congress back to what it used to be, the people's branch of government, doing things that made a difference in people's lives. I have devoted my life to government.

The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.

Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.

Donald Trump, when he gives his speeches, talks like a populist. And he talks to middle class and working America and poor people. But when he governs, at least in his first 40 days, he governs like a hard-right guy.

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?

People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.