Working to get the Affordable Care Act to cover everybody and get the cost down will work better and every analyst who's looked at what I want to do compared to Senator [Bernie] Sanders has reached the same conclusion.

I'm not going to be responding to [Donald Trump].

If there are issues, if there's wrongdoing, people have to be held accountable and we have to try to deter future bad behavior.

If fighting for working families is playing the women's card, you know what, deal me in.

Occasionally I’ll be sitting somewhere and I’ll be listening to someone perhaps not saying the kindest things about me. And I’ll look down at my hand and I’ll sort of pinch my skin to make sure it still has the requisite thickness I know Eleanor Roosevelt expects me to have.

Stay in the middle,don't get pushed to the side,every chance that's worth taking,is a chance worth the fight

When I was young, I really identified with Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, particularly the character of Jo. The book was written at a time when there weren't as many options for women and girls as there are now. Jo really struggled with that. She wanted to write, to work, to help her family.