If you put everything, your heart and soul into a campaign, it might take you a while to come around to the realization that, you know, another person has won.

I want to avoid sounding like I'm criticizing because I don't have all the facts in front of me yet. And I am trying to be a unifier.

If people are given a TV-educated idea of what Islam is, I have the opportunity to push back on that and say ISIS does not speak for the Muslim world, and in fact, you have people right here in front of you who are much more representative than homicidal maniacs.

The most important criteria for a DNC chair is going to be vision.

As chairman of the DNC, [Keith ] Ellison says he would replicate that kind of turnout on a national scale. But we spoke yesterday about some history that could stand in the way.

We do know that [Hillary Clinton] was probably attacked and smeared as much as any candidate ever has been. We know that.

I do believe that we should have to - make the voters first; not the donors first.