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.

We need to be as well prepared to defend ourselves against public health dangers as we should be to defend ourselves against any foreign danger.

When I was in the Senate, I had a number of trade deals that came before me, and I held them all to the same test. Will they create jobs in America? Will they raise incomes in America? And are they good for our national security? Some of them I voted for.

There are places that are thriving in America that don't need very much help, and then there are places where people feel so discouraged and so left behind, like nobody cares about them. And I want to try to help there.

I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.

I believe strongly that commonsense gun safety measures would assist us.

I think our great task is to make certain that our young men and women in the military do not get sucked into never- ending, perpetual warfare within the quagmire of Syria and Iraq. And I will do my very best to make sure that that doesn't happen.