Our history has moved in that direction slowly at times but unmistakably thanks to generations of Americans who refused to give up or back down.Now you are writing a new chapter of that story. This campaign [2016] is about making sure there are no ceilings, no limits on any of us. And this our moment to come together.

I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.

Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.

When I think about what we now know about Donald Trump and what he's been doing for 30 years, he sure has spent a lot of time demeaning, degrading, insulting, and assaulting women.

What I want to do is make sure middle class kids, not Donald Trump's kids, get to be able to afford college.

I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.

Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, all the time.