I don't think it was progressive to vote to give gun makers and sellers immunity. I don't think it was progressive to vote against Ted Kennedy's immigration reform.

I have a comprehensive energy policy, but it really does include fighting climate change, because I think that is a serious problem.

Donald Trump is the first candidate ever to run for president in the last 40-plus years who has not released his tax returns, so everything he says about charity or anything else, we can't prove it.

I sometimes think that I didn't leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me.

You have to be true to yourself.

We have to work to make sure that our police are using the best training, the best techniques, that they're well prepared to use force only when necessary.

I think it's a broader target list than just Wall Street, and I believe that we have to be very focused on how we try to take back the power and increase the empowerment of the American people. And, I think I have that kind of experience, maybe because they've beat me up for so many years, and I know exactly how to handle them because I've been in the arena with them time and time again.