When we didn't succeed at healthcare reform back in 1993, 1994, I went to work with Democrats and Republicans and we created the Children's Health Insurance Program.

I have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness.

What I am proposing is that we invest from the middle out and the ground up, not the top down. That is not going to work.

The most important qualification is that the person I pick be ready to become president if something were to happen.

It is fair to say, Bernie Sanders, that in your definition, as you being the self-proclaimed gatekeeper for progressivism, I don't know anyone else who fits that definition, but I know a lot of really hard fighting progressives in the Democratic party who have stood up time, and time again against special interests, against the powerful on behalf of those who are left behind and left out.

[Donald Trump ] who has said women don't deserve equal pay unless they do as good a job as men.

Donald Trump's campaign manager said that you built a lot of businesses on the backs of little guys.