Is it important that you have a strong leadership for your party? I think it's critical.

And not go to things that sound good that really did not have the kind of impact that we would want. Who disagrees with keeping neighborhoods safe?

I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should not still be in poverty.

I think whoever runs next time has to have a very clear idea of where he or she wants to take America and has to run on those ideas, because the election cannot be about personalities, participants sniping, all of the irrelevant stuff the day after the election sort of dissipates, and you wake up and say, okay, now what am I going to do?

Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.

We cannot just say law and order. We have to say - we have to come forward with a plan that is going to divert people from the criminal justice system, deal with mandatory minimum sentences, which have put too many people away for too long for doing too little.

We have an authorization to use military force against terrorists. We passed it after 9/11.