On healthcare we are the prisoner of our past. The way we got to develop any kind of medical insurance program was during World War II when companies facing shortages of workers began to offer healthcare benefits as an inducement for employment. So from the early 1940s healthcare was seen as a privilege connected to employment. And after the war when soldiers came back and went back into the market there was a lot of competition, because the economy was so heated up.

Every single child should have the chance to live up to his or her God-given potential.

I believe that America has the opportunity to once again live by our values, live up to our values in the 21st century, but I think that America can only do that if Americans can succeed. And there are lots of reasons why Americans today are feeling left out and left behind.

Climate change is such a consequential crisis to everybody in the world.

The people of New York took a big chance on me. And I'm well aware of that.

I have proposed I would not add a penny to the debt and [Donald Trump] plans would add $5 trillion to the debt.

If there are issues, if there's wrongdoing, people have to be held accountable and we have to try to deter future bad behavior.