It is not the job of the Department of Education to maximize profits for the government at the cost of squeezing students who are struggling to get an education.

Nobody's safe. Health insurance? That didn't protect 1 million Americans who were financially ruined by illness or medical bills last year.

I hope Hillary Clinton runs for president.

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

My mother said, if you don't have the cash, don't buy it. And on that, my mother was right.

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

As a Democrat, one of the things that frustrates me the most is there are a lot of times we just don't get in the fight. We ask pretty please if we can have things or we make the argument for why it is the best thing to do, and then wait patiently for the other side to agree to come along. We negotiate. We start our opening position by negotiating.