When the middle class thrives, the country thrives, and when it doesn't, we don't.

I want people to come together and listen respectfully.

I think Ted Cruz is a very mean-spirited guy. You can see it from how the Republican Party responds to him.

Yet again, the family of a young black man is grieving a life cut short. Yet again, the streets of an American city are marred by violence. What we have seen in Baltimore should, indeed I think does, tear at our soul.

I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.

When the middle class thrives, the country thrives, and when it doesn't, we don't.

It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, for the few, and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity.