Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.

We need to invest at the local party unit and focus our energy on turn out. That's how we come back, and we can come back.

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.

What I'm saying is we [Democratic Party] need to get much more granular.

To strengthen the grassroots at the party - at the party unit, at the county level, at the precinct level, and then to help motivate and facilitate the local grassroots to get out there and turn out the vote and boost turn out. And then to help govern in places where we do hold city councils and state legislatures.

I worked at McDonald's. I cooked. It was one of the toughest jobs I've ever had. These people earn every single penny they get. In fact, they earn way more than they get.

We have a chance for racial solidarity because all of us, unless you`re in the top 1 percent, are really struggling in this economy.