I feel strongly that we have to have an education system that starts with preschool and goes through college. That's why I want more technical education in high schools and in community colleges, real apprenticeships to prepare young people for the jobs of the future.

We have an authorization to use military force against terrorists. We passed it after 9/11.

I think it's a false trade-off to say quality time versus quantity - you have to have both.

We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally.

I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.

I've never seen people as physically distraught as the Bush administration team was because of what was happening to the economy. I personally believe that the steps that President Obama took saved the economy. He doesn't get the credit he deserves for taking some very hard positions. But it was a terrible recession. So now we've dug ourselves out of it, we're standing, but we're not yet running.

There is absolutely no disconnect between common sense gun safety measures and protecting the Second Amendment rights of gun owners.