I say in this book, I still don’t understand why the sort of mainstream Democratic Party perceives Bernie Sanders or AOC to be the fringe threats to our electoral success.

The entire country is seized by the question of when there will be an agreement, because apparently until there is an agreement, the Strait of Hormuz remains closed.

It has been indecipherable, the information coming from the administration, especially in the past several weeks, as we get signals that a deal is imminent.

So you will not give them sanctions relief just in exchange for reopening the strait?

It's just sad that we had to go through all of this just to talk about a diplomatic agreement that brings us back to where we were but lowers our leverage

I just think our solutions have to be bigger.

These new rules are just a gun lobby wish list printed on ATF letterhead and they’ll make all of our communities less safe.

The historic drops we’ve seen over the last few years in gun violence and crime thanks to commonsense gun regulations are now at serious risk, but Trump doesn’t care so long as his supporters in the gun lobby are getting rich.

People are dying in ICE custody at a rate four times higher than during the Biden administration.

How do you defend an agency that was told to stop acting illegally, and on 100 occasions, when reading the court order, just said, ‘forget it. We are not obeying what the court tells us to do.’

In retrospect, Joe Biden should have stepped away from that race. We should have had an open contest.

I think the story here has been pretty simple from the start. Donald Trump does not want to do what is necessary to support Ukraine, and the Republican Party will always follow his lead.

We need the Iran war to end. There's been this talk of a deal for months and months and months. I think the terms of the deal are pretty humiliating in and of themselves, but we just need this war done, no matter the terms, at this point.

Democrats need to be much louder about the ways that we're going to get billionaire and corporate money out of our politics, because people don't believe us when we say we're going to fix the economy.

People are dying because of our help for Russia. So, it's just bad enough that the Strait of Hormuz is closed and it's hurting our economy.

I think Democrats do have to be honest about the mistakes that we made in 2024.

This book is really about the spiritual crisis in the country that led to Donald Trump.

We actually have to create more healthy identity structures for people outside of politics.

This is a country that is feeling more lonely, more adrift, more exhausted by an economy that abuses workers.

Connecticut remains on the right side of the law and will continue to keep our communities safe from crime and this administration’s lawlessness.

The fact that we are adding insult to injury by the war in Iran helping Russia is just unacceptable.

I just think ultimately Donald Trump has decided he does not want to help Ukraine, and there doesn't seem to be enough courage in the Republican caucus to fight back.

Character also involves standing up to people who are bankrupting and corrupting this country.

This has been an absolute disaster for the United States. Obviously, the primary impact is here at home, as families and businesses are being ruined by gas prices.

We should have had an open contest.