If we don't rebuild that connection with people we will really find even bigger gaps, because our gap on inequality is not just economic.

I want a strong military. But I do not believe, among other things, that without an audit, we should be throwing tens of billions of dollars more into the Department of Defense.

What's great about America is anybody can run for president. That is literally true.

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

In America, we trade more energy with our neighbors than we trade with the rest of the world combined. And I do want us to have an electric grid, an energy system that crosses borders. I think that would be a great benefit to us.

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

After 9/11, I went to work with Republican mayor, governor and president to rebuild New York and to get health care for our first responders who were suffering because they had run toward danger and gotten sickened by it. Hundreds of thousands of National Guard and Reserve members have health care because of work that I did, and children have safer medicines because I was able to pass a law that required the dosing to be more carefully done.