I want us to do more to support people who are struggling to balance family and work. I've heard from so many of you about the difficult choices you face and the stresses that you're under. So let's have paid family leave, earned sick days. Let's be sure we have affordable child care and debt-free college.

Americans have always had innovators and entrepreneurs who built real companies and create real value, but we should not and we will not respect those who get rich by cheating everybody else.

We need more good jobs, and that means we've got to start educating young people, starting literally in the first five years of life making sure that every kid in every zip code has good teachers and good schools, making college affordable, helping people pay down their debt.

I never thought I would end up being the Senator from New York.

Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation.

We used to say in the White House that if a place is too dangerous, too small or too poor, send the First Lady.

Instead of gutting consumer protection, we should be expanding it.