We need to have more taxes, not less, and we need the taxes we have, certainly, to provide services - for defense and education and health care. We should not cut money here in order to cut taxes.

Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough!

Jeb Bush is very good on immigration, he's very good on education. He's a smart guy.

Most gun dealers follow the law and run honest businesses. But the statistics show that 1 percent of dealers sell more than half of all illegal guns. Why isn't the federal government going after them? Here's one reason: unlike mayors, members of Congress don't get a phone call in the middle of the night when a cop is shot and killed. They don't deliver the eulogies.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen.

[Hillary Clinton] is going to decide war, peace, and health, education, livelihood for my kids. I want the best person.

I think it's a sign that the establishment is going to have to change. For too long they never thought about the average person, because the average person is not organized.