The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.'

It is because I owe America more than she has ever owed me that I am a candidate for president to the United States.

I'm ashamed that Congress finds billions for pork-barrel subsidies but fails to find money for veterans' health care.

In California, it's hard to buy all the media, no matter how much money you raise or spend, because it's such a huge state.

But certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations.

We know for a fact the Russians tried to change the outcome of our election, attacking the very fundamental of democracy. We know they did that. We need to know how, we need to know why, and most of all we need to know what to do to prevent this kind of activity, which they continue to carry on in free nations around the world.

In the 21st century nations don't invade other nations.