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I have zero interest in being vice president.
I want to do things for the people of this country.
Trump has words, but there's not really any depth there.
Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies.
For Trump, it's always about Trump and how he makes more money.
I feel lucky that I get the privilege of serving in the Senate.
As president, Clinton will continue to oppose TPP until it dies.
We get paid to do this work, and fellow senators need to do their jobs.
We need to deal with helping middle-class kids get a college education.
I absolutely trust Hillary Clinton to stand strong on trade agreements.
The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families.
No Ohio family should be forced to go hungry during the holidays or any time.
We should forcefully call out China whenever it violates international standards.
I have generally and will always fight for clean air and safe drinking water laws.
That just doesn't make sense, that government should be making money off students.
Working families in Ohio have been hurt badly. It started really with the Bush years.
Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.
I love working for the people of Ohio, and I have a lot more work to do as their senator.
The voters in both parties understand our trade policy really has betrayed the middle class.
I don't believe Trump or Cruz are fair traders. I think they are probably both free traders.
Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history.
I don't look in the mirror and see a president of the United States. I don't have that ambition.
Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.
We have rules about the environment and rules about worker safety and rules about consumer protection.
Democrats are ready, willing, and able to provide regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.
I know companies in Cleveland that could make the suits and the other things that Donald Trump has outsourced.
I've seen the same promises -- more jobs, higher wages, the jobs don't materialize ... the promises are remade.
I see all four presidential candidates, the leading four, Cruz and Trump and Sanders and Clinton, all oppose TPP.
Foreign companies in the United States have a significantly higher unionization rate than other companies overall.
The failure of one regional bank, assuming it is following a traditional model, will not threaten the entire system.
We see - every week or two, we see another story of a small business that went out of business because Donald Trump.
We're a country of rule of law, and rule of law doesn't move fast, especially in an entity as big the U.S. government.
It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.
I am very confident that in 2008, people's votes will count. I don't think they did in 2004. I think in 2008, they will.
Clinton is someone who understands trade, who understands we want more of it, but we want it under a different set of rules.
Hard-working men and women who have made America the strongest nation in the world are betrayed by Washington's trade policy.
With every year that passes, the more we have to be careful not to forget the causes and consequences of the Great Recession.
Our men and women in uniform make enough sacrifices for our country. Their credit rating should not be one of those sacrifices.
The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.
Ohio workers and Ohio manufacturers already know that we are, in fact, in a trade war, and the Chinese have done very well, thank you.
There are people working in Mahoning Valley in steel, in Findlay, Ohio, in rubber, in many other places because we've enforced trade deals.
What's the deal with Johnny Damon? He can't hit. He can't catch. He can't throw. He's sort of the five-tool guy... without any of the tools!
Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.
I welcome the work that the Clinton Global Initiative has done with groups and individuals like Bono and all that's happened around the world.
We're losing all kinds of white-collar jobs, all kinds of jobs in addition to manufacturing jobs, which we're losing by the droves in my state.
The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.
The reality in Iraq is that we are creating new terrorists and severely damaging the public impression of the United States in the Muslim world.
People feel these job-killing trade agreements have really squeezed the middle class and caused lots of people to lose their middle-class status.
We will see a different trade policy coming out of here, and I'm convinced of it. I wouldn't be supporting Hillary Clinton if I didn't believe that.
I look back at history, and some of the worst governments we've ever had, you know one of the first things they ever did? They went after the trade unions.