Ideology
- The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that's all I care about.
- I’m not some sort of blind slave to the president. I got elected without the president’s endorsement, and I think that has served me really well.October 8, 2025
- The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
- As the Democratic Party, we have a lot of work to do to make up for our failures in the past. We got crushed in this last election.September 23, 2025
- No matter what we say, the other side will hate us. The people in the center cannot be heard.
- Any politically motivated inquisition against federal civil servants who, under the direction of a previous administration, carried out policies that you now oppose, would call into question your commitment to the rule of law and the peaceful transition of power.
- For those of you who don't know me, which is most of you, I grew up on the front row of the American dream.
- Oftentimes when we think we're engaged in reasoned policy discussion we're actually engaged in complex efforts to rationalize the direction in which our tribal affiliations are pushing us.
- Given the gaps of trust that exist, that's a tough negotiation, and we haven't yet closed the gaps in a way where we think it would actually work.
- You know, just to be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it.
- His vision of America is one where we Americans are kind of helpless. We need to be rescued… I can't really imagine him on a white horse, but that seems to be what he is telling us: 'I alone can fix it.
- We're talking about the direction of our country, our children's future, the direction of the Supreme Court, all of this hinging on the next election. And at such a time as this, you cannot be lukewarm. We're going to take our country back, and you are either with us or against us.