On the spending, don't forget bridges and roads. It's like puppies and ice cream - who doesn't like them?

You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.

I believe in a zone of privacy.

If the FBI is watching you for suspected terrorist links, you should not be able to buy a gun with no questions asked.

Running for office in our country takes a lot of money, and candidates have to go out and raise it. New York is probably the leading site for contributions for fundraising for candidates on both sides of the aisle, and it's also our economic center. And there are a lot of people here who should ask some tough questions before handing over campaign contributions to people who were really playing chicken with our whole economy.

Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses.

I don't think all the blame lies with Wall Street. I think a lot of the blame lies with the [George W.] Bush administration. They went back to trickle-down economics. They took their eye off the mortgage market, they took their eye off the finance markets, and we ended up in a big mess.