I will do everything that I can to make sure that you have good jobs, with rising incomes, that your kids have good educations from preschool through college.

We know the IRS has made clear there is no prohibition on releasing it when you're under audit.

Many Americans are feeling, you know, shut out, shut down, the great recession hasn't ended for too many Americans, wages are flat, families are struggling, not enough new jobs, or new businesses are being created, and it's important that we all try to figure out what we're going to do, and that's what I've done my entire life, fighting for a higher minimum wage, or family leave, now paid family leave which I believe in, equal pay for equal work.

I have great respect for Senator [Bernie] Sanders's commitment to try to restore Glass-Steagall. But I do not believe that that is enough. And in fact, I don't believe it really addresses a lot of the biggest issues we have.

The Russians need to understand. I think they've been treating it as almost a probing, how far would we go, how much would we do.

I'm going to fight as hard as I can to make sure people have the futures that they deserve here in America.

The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.