Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. … It means standing up for people who have been kept down …”

Too many in our party have lost their way and it’s time to wake the heck up.

What I hope at the end of the day is that this really is about my eight years, and the bridge stuff is part of that, and the Trump stuff is part of that, but it’s only a part.

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.

Conservatives have a crucial role to play in shaping the future American health-care system to enhance and support enterprise, innovation, individual responsibility—to resist open-ended spending, state planning, and the risk that social insurance will penalize effort and success. It’s past time to accept reality, quit promising the impossible, and do the work that a democracy that seeks both equity and efficiency should expect from its more conservative-minded thinkers and politicians.

I’m a mom and an American first, and I cannot and will not support a candidate for president who brags about degrading and assaulting women.

If the consequence of standing against Trump and for principles is indeed the election of Hillary Clinton, so be it. At least it is a moral, ethical choice.

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.

Trumpism is basically a creation of the modern conservative movement, which used coded appeals to prejudice to make political gains, then found itself unable to rein in a candidate who skipped the coding.