As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

I did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It's not academic for me.

I disagree with any policy that would turn America's back on people who are fleeing harm. I frankly believe that it is contrary to everything that we have symbolically and actually said we stand for.

I've had the honor of speaking at many commencements.

Lena Waithe won an Emmy for writing while starring on the Netflix show 'Master of None,' but it might be more accurate to call her a Master of Everything.

Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.

As a young prosecutor right out of law school at the Alameda County DA's office that Earl Warren once led, I started my work.

I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother - my mother's mother - who used to go to villages in India in her little VW bug. My grandmother would take a bullhorn and make sure women in these villages knew how to access birth control.

We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8.

I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

I love being in a courtroom.

'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

Sexism is real in this country.

If segregationists had their way, I would not be a member of the United States Senate today, I would not be a top contender to be president of the United States.

Part of my focus on what we need to do around smart gun safety laws is recognize we have to have more enforcement around gun dealers.

I support Medicare for all. It is my preferred policy.

What we know is smartphones are everywhere and they are rich in data. What we know is that there are apps once downloaded by the consumer that will also in turn download the consumers' contact book. Most consumers don't want that to happen and don't know it's happening.

I'm prepared to say that law enforcement should be allowed to seize the guns of those who are suspected to be involved in domestic terrorism.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.

Anti-Semitism is real in this country.

Who of us has not had that situation where you've got to wait for approval, and the doctor says, 'Well, I don't know if your insurance company is going to cover this?' Let's eliminate all of that.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators - in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors - got their start here.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

And so I would not enforce a law that would reject people and turn them away without giving them a fair and due process to determine if we should give them asylum and refuge.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

DACA recipients risk a lot to come out of the shadows & sign up, but many will tell you the risk is worth being able to live and work in the only country they've ever known as home. DACA recipients serve in our military, work in Fortune 100 companies, and conduct important medical research.

I love to study people, and that's basically what sociology is.

There's a blessing in everything that happens to us.

When it comes down to digging, can't nobody dig as hard as I can dig.

Anybody in that welterweight division that think they want this, you know you don't, because I'm a problem. I'm a problem in this division.

At the end of the day, my job is to win in impressive fashion.

I am what I am. I don't regret anything.

I fractured my left foot.

My thing is, if you're going to talk online, if you're going to come at me with a certain energy, when you see me on-site, keep that certain energy. That's it. That's it. That's all I am.

There comes a time in our careers that you get that one guy. That guy that just makes your blood boil. That really pulls the savage out of you.

They say the body is 70 percent water, and you need that water for a reason.

You can't out-wrestle me. You can't out-strike me. You don't have more power than me.

Can't nobody handle me.

I got into this sport to make a statement.

You can't say that I don't have the skills. You can't say that. I have the skills.

I believe that I'm not just a fighter in this game; I love to study the sport. And in studying the sport, I believe I have a good eye for the sport, and I'm able to talk about the sport.

I'm not just a grappler.

Can anyone tell me what Jon Jones was ranked when he fought for the UFC title? No one knows. I believe, in that aspect, it was easier to get fights back then. It wasn't, 'What's this guy ranked?' You fought, made your money, and went home.

For what we do training, as a fighter, you have to be able to flip that switch where you turn into that savage, that guy that's prepared to go to war.

Fighting is just something that's gonna open doors for things to come in the future.

I'd like to think I'm a hybrid to where, if you had to pick, where would you say I'm weak? I can outwrestle guys; I can outgrapple guys. I can put your lights out, and I have a gas tank for days. I can do it all.

I think it's great to have USADA come in and clean up the sport, because what I don't want to do is train my butt off for 10 weeks to prepare for a fight for a limited amount of money to feed my family, then get out there with a guy that maybe put in 3 weeks training and cheated.