America needs a long-term vision.

A lot of folks look at the political calculation and then determine the policy. I think that's backward.

Voters want to get things done.

I worked as a day laborer throughout college, worked for Deloitte and Touche, got my CPA.

Way too many voters are apathetic and don't do their research and are on the sidelines.

There's certain issues, as I say in my speeches, that I'm not going to compromise on; I'm not going to compromise on a woman's right to choose and on marriage equality.

I've grown up in a very diverse background.

My birth mom has certainly not lived a life of means in any stretch of the imagination, nor does she want to.

The decision in Citizens United said that money equals speech, a position that I - and a vast majority of Americans, in poll after poll - could not disagree with more.

Citizens United was no victory for free speech.