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I am Irish, so I do like a good fight every now and then.
It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder.
I'm for increased funding for the Centers for Disease Control.
We need mental health counselors in every school that needs one.
I think social issues are always part of a presidential campaign.
Happiness is found by deeply experiencing the exact moment we are in.
To be competitive globally, we have to reduce the corporate tax rate.
Listen, were losing so much manufacturing, all over the United States.
I got a lot of respect for Nancy Pelosi. I love her. She was a mentor of mine.
I am a proud Italian American, raised by an Italian mother and Italian grandparents.
If you're a quarterback and you keep throwing interceptions, you change quarterbacks.
Globalization in the aggregate generates wealth, no question. But it gets concentrated.
If you're a coach and your team doesn't win, at some point you've got to change the coach.
There's no better inside player than Nancy Pelosi, and I don't have any animosity towards her.
I traveled the country for a year and a half helping Hillary Clinton to try to become president.
Like many Americans, my family and I have spent our entire lives at the epicenter of de-industrialization.
Trump is president of the United States. We can't blame our voters. We clearly did something terribly wrong.
The key to - and magic of - good campaigns is when you pull people together. You unite them around a common theme.
It is past time for the U.S. government to fully fulfill our moral obligation to those who have fought for freedom and democracy.
Between the fundraising, being away from family, the environment of hyperpartisanship, Washington is really stressing people out.
I've been in Congress 14 years. I've been on the Appropriations Committee in which we are in charge of trying to move legislation.
The people I represent in Northeast Ohio and the tens of millions of workers across our country are proud to be called blue collar.
Mindfulness helps you to be where you are when you're there. When I'm interacting with constituents who are suffering, that matters.
We need to be a party saying, 'We are not going to be happy until we get those $30, $40, $50 an hour jobs back for working-class people.'
We need to fund No Child Left Behind. We need to start at the beginning and we are not doing the job here in the United States of America.
I've been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other.
The biggest piece of advice I have is - listen. Don't jump to the answer or what you think the answer is. The more you listen, the more you learn.
My great grandfather emigrated from Italy, and my grandfather worked in a steel mill and was able to raise kids and have a family and go on vacation.
The Democrats have failed to have a real robust message for working-class people in places like Ohio - these states that Donald Trump came in and won.
I am a firm believer in the mission of the health centers, which offer cost-effective comprehensive primary and preventive services to at-risk people.
I have a chicken-wing addiction... I sometimes can't get out of a restaurant without at least trying their chicken wings. So that's my great downfall.
It's a lot easier to negotiate and be skillful from the majority. I want Paul Ryan negotiating with us. I don't want to have to negotiate with Paul Ryan.
Millions of working, uninsured Americans go to bed every night worrying what will happen to them and their families if a major illness or injury strikes.
I just find Bobby Kennedy's short campaign for president so inspiring because his rhetoric identified what America can be like if we care about each other.
From the War for Independence to today in Iraq and Afghanistan, I am inspired by the courage, professionalism and patriotism of our men and women in uniform.
I would think that conserving our natural resources should be a conservative position: Not to waste food, and not to throw away a lot of the food that we buy.
I'm going to lead a revolution for working people in America. This includes all workers: white, black and brown, men and women, gay and straight, urban and rural.
We need social and emotional learning in our schools. I think we also need to get good food in the schools. We can't be feeding our kids Pop-Tarts and chocolate milk.
The mindfulness revolution is not quite as dramatic as the moon shot or the civil rights movement, but I believe, in the long run, it can have just as great an impact.
I know from the stories of my grandparents and great-grandparents the real struggles and discrimination that Italian Americans faced when they first immigrated to America.
The Italian culture and values have significantly shaped who I am, and I would never intentionally demean or degrade the very culture that has been so integral to my life.
I think once you meet me, you realize I'm not necessarily some soft yoga guy. I've been on the picket line. I've been in the union halls. I'll drink a Miller Lite with you.
For most of us, starting off in the morning, your iPhone wakes you up, you immediately start checking emails or texts or whatever, and you're up and running until you go to bed.
I got kids that are growing up in a Donald Trump world because we screwed up because we haven't been able to craft a message and push policies that connect with working class people.
Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds inequality and makes life more difficult for people.
We need a president who doesn't just visit our forgotten communities for rallies but one who lives in them - one who knows the pain and suffering that comes with being unseen and unheard.
If you love your neighbor and are compassionate, are you automatically a Christian? Practicing present-moment awareness does not entail joining any religion or accepting any belief system.
I embrace a Green New Deal; I just think we have to have public-private partnerships if we're going to get there. We have to align the environmental incentives with the financial incentives.
Being tough on China is one thing. Being completely erratic with no strategy and dragging businesses and farmers through the mud, using them as pawns in the game, is not the way to beat China.
You can be hostile to greed. You can be hostile to income inequality. You can be for raising raises... but you can't be hostile to businesses because 98 percent of businesses are small business people.