Real democracy means that no group or faction or leader can impose their will, their ideology, their religion, their desires on anyone else.

I think that I am the person who can do all aspects of the job. I think I'm the person best prepared to take the case to the Republicans. And I think that at the end of the day, it's not so much electability. It is who the American people can believe can keep them safe, can get the economy moving again, can get incomes rising, can build on the progressive accomplishments of President [Barack] Obama.

I made policy decisions based on what I thought was right that keep Americans safe and to protect U.S. interests abroad. No wild political attacks by Donald Trump is going to change that.

There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.

What's great about America is anybody can run for president. That is literally true.

If we're going to be an effective, efficient economy, we need to have all part of that engine running well, and that includes Wall Street and Main Street.

I think that the decision to go to war in Iraq was a mistake.