I came into public life during the 1960s when a whole bunch of us believed in our ability to change the world. And we did a lot of things.

We will not be derailed by criminal anarchists who legitimately claim a religious cause.

You can't have responsibility and you can't have us living up to our ideals unless it's based on a fairly common acceptance of truth, of what is true - what is the truth here?

It's the [George Bush] president's fiscal policies that have driven up the biggest deficits in American history. He's added more debt to the debt of the United States in four years than all the way from George Washington to Ronald Reagan put together.

Middle class Americans don't ask for special favors, they just want basic fairness, and a President who fights for that ideal.

Those who deny the science or choose excuses over action are playing with fire.

What Donald Trump is doing is serving the polluters and serving a narrow group of ideological interests. That's not leadership. That's abdication of responsibility, and this step does not make America first. It makes America last.