In fact, Donald [Trump] was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis.

I don't recognize this new brand of Republicanism that's afoot now, which I consider to be very reactionary, not conservative in many respects.

What we've seen from Donald Trump has been so negative that nobody wants to be associated with that.

The United States remains the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all of our people. And yet we are spending almost twice as much per capita. We have a massively dysfunctional health care system. And I do believe in a Medicare for all single-payer system, whether a small state like Vermont can lead the nation, which I certainly hope we will, or whether it's California or some other state.

We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability.

Like it or not, women are always subject to criticism if they show too much feeling in public.

Caring for others is an expression of what it means to be fully human.