Tom Suozzi

I started a thing called The Promise to America, where I've got now 10 members of Congress signed onto it. We're in the process of getting 200 state and local officials.

Your grocery prices are higher, your fuel prices are high, your health insurance costs are higher. Your energy bill is higher. Your kids can't buy a house — all these different factors. And that's happening because of this administration.

We've identified 10 candidates, Democratic candidates, to sign the pledge that says 'We're capitalist, not socialist. We're for safety, not lawlessness. We're proud, not ashamed of America, and we're mainstream, we're not extreme.'

I don't ascribe to any of those ideas at all, and I think that there's very little support for those ideas.

I try not to waste my time on worry. I try to take action. So I just say very clearly, 'That's not me and that's not us, and this is why that's not us, and that's why this is not me.' And I fight back against it.

I think it should be less about Trump himself. You know, when I say it should be a referendum on Trump, it should be a referendum on this administration's performance addressing the things in your life.

If I show up and say ‘hey lets work together to solve the problems that we face in our country,’ you’re not going to get a big rally for that.

I call myself a new kind of old-fashioned Democrat. Someone who believes in the traditional values.

We’re for capitalism, not socialism. We’re for safety, not lawlessness. We’re proud of America. Not ashamed of America. And we need to be promoting those things.

The left and the right, Suozzi tells Peter, want to 'tear it all down.'

I thought my fellow moderates had been 'asleep at the switch' in the face of the ascendant far left.