Right now what my job is, and I think the job of Democrats and Republicans, is to protect the middle class and working families of this country from some devastating ideas that [Donald] Trump has proposed.

I think that [James] Comey acted in an outrageous way during the [presidential ] campaign [in 2016].

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

I think, in fact, I think President [Barack] Obama could step up.

You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.

When I was 15 years old in the tenth grade, I heard Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at the time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change