If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.

Don't get mad. Don't get even. Just get elected, then get even.

We ought to be talking about our democracy being under assault right now and what we're going to do about it and not what somebody said in July about James Comey. That's a distraction, that's not what's going on.

You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.

There is nothing going on and in the meantime we do know that our democracy is under assault by the KGB. To me, that's something we ought to be talking about. That's a relevant issue in this campaign [2016].