What I am proposing is that we invest from the middle out and the ground up, not the top down. That is not going to work.

I still support the right of local communities to make up their own minds about whether or not they want to permit fracking.

I served on the budget committee in the Senate, and I remember as vividly as if it were yesterday when we had a hearing in which Alan Greenspan came and justified increasing spending and cutting taxes, saying that we didn't really need to pay down the debt - outrageous in my view.

When families are strong, America is strong.

My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have.

I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should not still be in poverty.