I strongly believe in a free market, and it is great when companies make money and pay their people well.

As an entrepreneur and public company CEO, I've dealt with dozens of rollouts, and when unveiling a new product, the operating approach should be, 'Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.'

Federal spending is like a massive ship that takes a very long time to turn.

We already spend too few days in Congress working on meaningful legislation; we simply can't afford to waste more time on legislation that doesn't move the needle to improve the lives of everyday Americans.

Representative democracy is in crisis in the United States.

By any measure, CapitalSource outperformed both our direct competitors and the financial services industry in general, particularly in the context of the near collapse of the financial services industry where 19 of the 20 largest financial institutions in the country either failed or were bailed out by the government.

There are definitely problems with technology companies, mostly around privacy, in my opinion, and the fact that they don't protect our privacy and we haven't passed privacy laws.

I think dealing with climate change should be a centerpiece of any campaign in the 2020 election cycle. Yet I'm the only one with a bipartisan carbon tax bill.

My mother wanted me to be a doctor.

I don't say bad things about my Republican colleagues, ever.

Repealing the estate tax won't create jobs, it won't boost GDP, and it won't add efficiency to the market. Instead, repealing the estate tax will simply add to the debt, hurt our ability to build a stronger economy and worsen economic inequality.

The need to change our country's fiscal trajectory, including reforming entitlement programs, is an unassailable reality that will define our time.

We really need to move to a bit of a post-partisan world where we actually start solving problems and stop kind of living in a country where the political leaders act like half the country is entirely wrong about everything they believe and increasingly try to pit American against American.

In my private sector career, two of my favorite sayings were, 'Strategy is easy and execution is really hard,' and that we should 'run at criticism.'

What the establishment was trying to do was to position me as a Republican running in the Democratic primary.

An institution that borrows on a non-prioritized basis would never contemplate borrowing on a prioritized basis. Doing so would undermine its standing in the bond market and suggest that it is not worthy of its strong credit rating. This type of self-imposed downgrade would materially affect its financial prospects.

No military or veteran family should have to choose between paying their bills and being together while one of our nation's heroes is in the hospital.

I was a big supporter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. I worked very closely with President Obama on that.

America's disabled veterans answered our country's call, and when their time in uniform is done, our country must stand with them.

Our safety and security is more important than ever, and Congress needs to take an active role in enforcing international agreements that support global security.

Some people call me a moderate, some people call me a progressive. In truth, what I've worked on in the Congress and always - going to presidential campaigns - are these big, bold progressive ideas.

I'm a Democrat in that I work towards progressive things, but I also am laser-like focused in my desire to actually get things done and not just talk about it.

A lack of reform - particularly in international tax - has hurt our ability to compete in a global economy by keeping U.S. corporate cash overseas and reducing domestic investment, slowing economic growth.

Imagine a country where the vast majority of seniors live in poverty, a country where for many there are no golden years, but a time of struggle and dependence. That was the United States before the creation of Social Security, which has proven to be one of the most effective and important government programs in our history.