It wasn't until 1998 that I ever seriously thought about running for office. And I didn't make up my mind to do that until 1999, and then I ran for the Senate. It was really hard for me.

It takes a village to raise a child.

I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.

I'm going to try to get everybody who makes less than $125,000 in their family, which is the vast majority of people, to be able to go to a public college or university totally tuition-free. And if you make more than that, debt-free.

Nobody should want to wake up on November 9th and wonder whether there was more you could have done.

I know what high stakes politics demands, it is a twenty-four seven, totally consuming experience.

People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.