I have been very consistent over the course of my entire life. I have always fought for the same values and principles.

People support me because they know me. They know my life's work. They have worked with me and many have also worked with Senator [Bernie] Sanders. And at the end of the day they endorse me because they know I can get things done.

If we only stopped to listen to them for a few minutes, kids could tell us that we move too fast, for their good and ours.

Donald Trump says he knows more about ISIS than the generals. No, he doesn't.

I certainly don't read coverage of me, I read what else is going on that I need to know about to do my job.

We are going backwards in a field that’s supposed to be all about moving forward

I think what Secretary Ash Carter is seeing, and I'm glad he is, is that we got to get NATO back working for the common defense. We've got to do more to support our partners in NATO, and we have to send a very clear message to Putin that this kind of belligerence, that this kind of testing of boundaries will have to be responded to. The best way to do that is to put more armor in, put more money from the Europeans in so they're actually contributing more to their own defense.