I am a prosecutor in my bones. When I see something, I immediately go to: how is this going to affect a child?

In every work environment, there will be politics. If you really want to rise to the top, you need to figure out what those politics in your workplace are. Then, you hook it in. You decide what conforms and what does not conform to your personal code.

The American dream belongs to all of us.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.

You don't have to care about children to care about children. One of the things that I talk a lot about is the fact of the importance of third-grade reading level. By the end of third grade, if the child is not at reading level, it'll drop off. They never catch up.

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.