I have lived according to rules that I embrace, but I don't feel like my job is to force others to embrace the rules that I embrace for myself.

The permanent institutional expertise class is now no longer the legislators, it's the lobbyists who don't have term limits and are there forever.

I am not taking anything for granted.

The American public will be clear on who's most fit to be president. And that's Hillary Clinton.

If you think of big, legislative accomplishments, most of them kind of get initiated with the president putting something out there and Congress working on it.

Maybe some things that weren't so great were said about the Irish when they came. But Americans've done well by absorbing immigrants and it's made our nation stronger.

If you just fight against everything willy-nilly, then the message is you're just gonna obstruct on anything. I would rather fight very, very hard on matters of fundamental principle and then have the critique be that Trump is violating the very foundations of America.