We are out of the ditch, we're standing, we're walking, but we're not running. I want to grow the economy.

Over the years, so many of the barriers that prevented people from getting married, crossing lines of faith or color or ethnicity have just disappeared. Because what's important is: 'Are you making a responsible decision? Have you thought it through? Do you understand the consequences?' And I think in the world that we're in today we need more of that.

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

Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they?

We've got to do everything possible to improve policing, to go right at implicit bias.

Running for office in our country takes a lot of money, and candidates have to go out and raise it. New York is probably the leading site for contributions for fundraising for candidates on both sides of the aisle, and it's also our economic center. And there are a lot of people here who should ask some tough questions before handing over campaign contributions to people who were really playing chicken with our whole economy.

One of the best investments we can make is to give our kids the ingredients they need to develop in the first five years of life.