I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.

Everyone has a right to a job, everyone has a right to an education, everyone has a right to health care, everyone has a right to retirement security, everyone has a right to housing, and everyone has a right to peace.

We cannot take the president off the hook for an illegal war that was based on lies.

Look, I've lost before. And there's always a tomorrow.

I think there are people in this Congress who actually believe that government does not have a benign role in the lives of the people, except as an engine to redistribute the wealth of the Nation upwards.

When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.

My aspirations for this country would be on the scope of what Franklin Roosevelt brought to this country in 1932 when he saw a nation that was broken economically.