We have had a great relationship with the White House.We just had every cabinet person designee of ours meet with the cabinet members of the [Barack] Obama administration on Friday. I've met numerous times with Denis McDonough, they've been nothing but helpful.

The last thing we want is a monolithic viewpoint where six people are standing before a president saying the same thing over and over again.

I would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.

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.

[Donald Trump] is not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

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.

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.