Don't tear other people down. Lift people up.

America and Mexico are both a nation of immigrants and we are a nation of laws and we can act accordingly.

The United States remains the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all of our people. And yet we are spending almost twice as much per capita. We have a massively dysfunctional health care system. And I do believe in a Medicare for all single-payer system, whether a small state like Vermont can lead the nation, which I certainly hope we will, or whether it's California or some other state.

I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman.

Part of the reason [Donald Trump] destroyed his Republican challengers is because they agree with him on issues. And he apparently struck a vein of entertainment among the Republican primary voters, so all they had left was kind of whining and insulting back and forth, as opposed to taking him on where I think a presidential election should.

The safe haven that al-Qaida has found in Pakistan is very troubling.

Let's provide family leave that is paid and access to affordable, high-quality childcare.