I like Paul Ryan, and to a certain extent, I feel bad for him. But this is a moment of moral choice. And if he says that Hillary Clinton is worse than a openly racist, Muslim-hating misogynist who wants to build a wall to exclude Mexicans, who thinks that a judge, an American judge because of his Mexican lineage cannot be fair to him, if you`re saying that Hillary Clinton is worse than all that, then I just think that that just is ridiculous, it`s absurd, and it really starts to damage the speaker`s credibility.

I'm particularly good at turnout. So in my district, I had the lowest voter turnout in 2006.

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'll just say, you know, over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot.

I'm not here to cast aspersions on anyone. I'm trying to unify the party, not find fault.

I'd say the most important criteria is vision. What is your vision for the party? Do you have a vision to strengthen the grassroots and help them turn out people in their local communities? That's the real thing. The real question is not about one person. It's not about an individual. It's about millions of people working all over this country to reach out in their local communities. And the DNC chair has to help them do that and have a vision for that and have the energy for that.

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.