Tom Suozzi: “You can't fix everything through reconciliation, and you're going to need Democratic votes.”

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.

We absolutely should be looking at any kind of reform. I want to mend it, not end it.

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