“But I don’t think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.”

The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.

If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.

We’re going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We’re going to beat guns into submission!

In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.

When you lose an election, you don’t blink, you don’t turn away. You look it right in the eye and say, why did we lose?

Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people’s rights away.

I think there’s going to be a lot of Americans who are really willing to be much more active than they were before, because they’re worried about where Trump is headed.

Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

The highest priority you can have is education.

Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that’s not what any of us should want from our judges.

I made education the highest priority of my campaign – actually education and jobs – and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.

I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.

The Democratic Party was always there on crime, but in the past we let the ideologues on the left dominate. The Republicans may still let the ideologues on the right dominate.

It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.

Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.

It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.

I tell the boy in my class that no means no and he laughs in my face – says no means change my mind.

Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.

My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.

I went to an all-girls’ Catholic school for, like, six years during the time when kids actually had handwriting class. I’ve always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well.

It’s easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.