Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.

I was never up four percent.

You know a Senate race is obviously a much smaller deal than a presidential race. What I think makes a very hard job considerably easier when you're going to debate is if you have reminded yourself - or somebody has reminded you during the course of your campaign - that consistency is enormously important. That people don't want to hear you say one thing in one part of the state and another thing in another part of the state.

[The Clean Power Plan] is an important step toward curbing carbon pollution and addressing climate change.

There are many miles to go before we get this done ... But I have a feeling that ... we're going to have a big bipartisan vote for this in the end. My sense is that people are more optimistic than they've been in 20 years about addressing this problem.

In this day and age of digital media, as we've learned, it's not as though nobody's going to find out what you said.

I believe people I represent still aspire to the idea that our job as a generation is to provide more opportunity to the people coming after us, not less.