You’re in charge. And we’ve tried to negotiate.

It smacks of an ambush, that JD Vance knew what he was doing...

we don’t have another year to fight this attempt to destroy democracy. Our democracy might be gone in six months.

Elon Musk wants a shutdown. Why? Because then it’s carte blanche — open parks, get rid of EPA, no research.

Donald Trump is going to be the spectacle.

I think that the traditional sort of political rules still apply. If we have people out on the streets protesting, if we’re overwhelming Republican town halls, if we’re lighting up the phone lines here, political gravity still exists.

When somebody is trying to grab power, when somebody is trying to destroy democracy, they benefit from people who are static, who refuse to be nimble.

Being president is just not in my brain at all right now.

We have become the party of the status quo, when we’re not. We’re actually the party of change, the party of transferring power from powerful people to people who have no power.

I just wake up every day and say what I feel and I think, and it sort of feels to me that these days, authenticity is the only thing that matters in politics.

That economic message, the message that speaks to a lot of things that Bernie Sanders talks about, is a unifying message in this country.

A lot of people in the Democratic Party tried to make it sound like Bernie was divisive, when, in fact, Bernie’s message, still to this day, speaks to a lot of folks that voted for Donald Trump.

We don’t have another year to fight this attempt to destroy democracy. Our democracy might be gone in six months.

This moment is different, that this threat is unique — and to me, you know, we don’t have another year to fight this attempt to destroy democracy. Our democracy might be gone in six months.

Authenticity is the only thing that matters in politics.

Maybe part of the reason that some of my stuff and messaging is breaking through right now is because I don’t have that ambition.

Being president is 'just not in my brain at all right now,' ... 'sounds like a pretty hard, miserable job.'

authenticity is the only thing that matters in politics — that folks will actually let you make a lot of mistakes as long as they feel like they’re hearing you genuinely.