Keep striving for your goals, and remember that it's good to be ambitious.

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

I am very comfortable saying what I believe I can do, being very specific about how we will do it, how we will pay for it, and having people know that I want them to hold me accountable.

If you are too dangerous to get on a plane, you are too dangerous to buy a gun.

I'm just grateful my dad never got a contract with Donald Trump, because I don't know what we would have done.

When I was a Senator from New York, I represented and worked with so many talented principled people who made their living in finance. But even thought I represented them and did all I could to make sure they continued to prosper, I called for closing the carried interest loophole and addressing skyrocketing CEO pay. I also was calling in '06, '07 for doing something about the mortgage crisis, because I saw every day from Wall Street literally to main streets across New York how a well-functioning financial system is essential.

Our history has shown us that the strongest growth in our economy is inclusive, broad-based growth.