Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America. It's not a struggle that lasts for a few days, a few weeks, a few months, or a few years. It is the struggle of a lifetime, more than one lifetime.

President-elect [Donald] Trump won 30 of 50 states, more counties since Ronald Reagan.

As a young child, it became crystal clear to me that there were certain rights and privileges that other people had that my mother, my father, my grandparents, my great grandparents didn't have - that it was an ongoing struggle to realize the dream of the 14th and 15th Amendment.

I want [Donald] Trump to send out a tweet saying that he's going to keep his campaign promises.

Races don't fall in love, genders don't fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.

We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.

I think the administration can do a lot of good by telling folks that are on their side of the aisle, look, we may have lost the election on the Democrat side, but it's time to come together.