The Congress is not willing to think about the long term. They act like activist shareholders, to use that phrase again. They're not thinking about what can we do that will make us richer, safer, and stronger next year, and the year after, and five and 10 years out.

You have to be true to yourself.

We are here to advance the cause of women and to advance the cause of democracy and to make it absolutely clear that the two are inseparable.

I've been really at the highest levels of American political life.

Senator [Ben] Sanders and I share some very big progressive goals. I've been fighting for universal healthcare for many years, and we're now on the path to achieving it. I don't want us to start over again. I think that would be a great mistake, to once again plunge our country into a contentious debate about whether we should have and what kind of system we should have for healthcare.

You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?

I've tried to be very specific about what we can and should do.