If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

Americans understand that the game is rigged, and they've had enough of it. They're ready to fight back. They want a Washington that works for them, i think that people are getting more engaged, politically, and they're seeing through a lot of the rhetoric that politicians have been throwing out there for a long time. They want to see some real change, and I think that's what we need to work on.

Why is the Keystone Pipeline the very first, #1 item on the Republicans' agenda? We know that this pipeline runs terrible environmental risks and it just won't do much for the American people. So why is this bill so urgent? Money and power.

Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.

My advice is to treat [credit cards] like what they are: little plastic grenades that must be handled very carefully.

I get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a punch.

There's a limit here. This is how far we go and we don't go further. And I also think by talking about [gifts] it that way, it avoids the unspoken idea that money is the expression of love.