If I did not resign that day, I was told that the D.O.J. would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from U.Va. before they would even negotiate.

They were basically willing to grant U.Va. blanket immunity — all of the inquiries and investigations would be suspended, no financial penalties would be imposed and agencies would be told not to cut off our research funding.

Forcing university presidents to resign, moreover, has not been part of the playbook of the Trump administration; as far as I know, I am the only university president in the country who has been forced to resign as part of a supposed deal…

We need to be the party of order and logic … I refuse to weaponize the SNAP benefit for 42 million Americans.

When you’re confronting mass chaos, I don’t think you should respond with more chaos or fight with more chaos.

If you thought my face looked bad before, wait until you see it now!

It's entirely appropriate to have a conversation with yourself and people around you, of a stroke that quite literally almost took my life, now, should I remain in that?

I vote a 91% Democratic line, and if Democrats have a problem with somebody that votes 91% of the same times as you are, more than nine out of 10 times, then maybe our party has a bigger problem.

For me, depression is the ultimate lie that you begin to tell yourself, that perhaps the best solution is to take yourself out.

I refuse to call people, like whether it's President Trump or other people, as they're Nazis or that they're fascists, or that we're trying to destroy our country.

I don't know what your road for recovery is, but I promise if you stay in the game, you will get better, and I'm being here right now is a testament to that.

voting for someone does not mean that you agree with them on all of those things.

I know it's not a political winner to talk about depression or self-harm or suicide, but that's an important conversation I'm willing to have.

That's the message that I'd have to people in the throes of this now is … whoever [is] in your life, they need you, they need you.

It’s only wrong to shut our government down, and I’m relieved … the people now that are going to get paid and fed.

My party crossed a line.

I suffered from depression and I made a recovery and I won an election.

It's always been wrong for us to shut the government down.