If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

We have had a lot of whistle-blowing going on out of the Department of Homeland Security, low morale. I want to make sure [John Francis Kelly] understands the agency he's stepping into. So I'll reserve judgment until after confirmation hearings.

I think we have got to call out the Republicans, where their walk doesn't match their talk, and I think we also have to make sure that we communicate clearly that we are the party that cares deeply in our core about working people in this country.

I'm going to wait for the confirmation hearings. I'm familiar with General [John Francis ] Kelly because of my work on the Armed Services Committee. I think he is a fine general and I want to make sure that he has a handle on some of the complicated issues that are contained within Homeland Security.

I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.

Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.