We [with Donald Trump] just have a different view about what's best for growing the economy, how we make investments that will actually produce jobs and rising incomes.
I think we come at it from somewhat different perspectives. You know, Donald [Trump] was very fortunate in his life, and that's all to his benefit.
I have a different experience. My father was a small-businessman. He worked really hard. He printed drapery fabrics on long tables, where he pulled out those fabrics and he went down with a silkscreen and dumped the paint in and took the squeegee and kept going.
Let's stop for a second and remember where we were eight years ago [in 2008]. We had the worst financial crisis, the Great Recession, the worst since the 1930s. That was in large part because of tax policies that slashed taxes on the wealthy, failed to invest in the middle class, took their eyes off of Wall Street, and created a perfect storm.
In fact, Donald [Trump] was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis.
[Donald Trump] said, back in 2006, "Gee, I hope it does collapse, because then I can go in and buy some and make some money." Well, it did collapse.
Nine million people - nine million people lost their jobs [in 2008]. Five million people lost their homes. And $13 trillion in family wealth was wiped out.Now, we have come back from that abyss. And it has not been easy.
I think science is real. And I think it's important that we grip this and deal with it, both at home and abroad.
When we talk about Donald Trump business, he has taken business bankruptcy six times. There are a lot of great businesspeople that have never taken bankruptcy once.
You [Donald Trump] call yourself the King of Debt. You talk about leverage. You even at one time suggested that you would try to negotiate down the national debt of the United States.
I have, ever since the first day of my campaign, called for criminal justice reform.
I've laid out a platform that I think would begin to remedy some of the problems we have in the criminal justice system.
We have to bring communities together in order to begin working on that as a mutual goal.
We have to tackle the plague of gun violence.
I've heard Donald [Trump]s ay this at his rallies, and it's really unfortunate that he paints such a dire negative picture of black communities in our country.
We do always have to make sure we keep people safe.
Stop-and-frisk was found to be unconstitutional and, in part, because it was ineffective. It did not do what it needed to do.
I believe in community policing. And, in fact, violent crime is one-half of what it was in 1991.
Property crime is down 40 percent. We just don't want to see it creep back up. We've had 25 years of very good cooperation.
Right now - and this is something Donald [Trump] has supported, along with the gun lobby - right now, we've got too many military- style weapons on the streets. In a lot of places, our police are outgunned. We need comprehensive background checks, and we need to keep guns out of the hands of those who will do harm.
There are things we can do [with violence], and we ought to do it in a bipartisan way.
We've got to do everything possible to improve policing, to go right at implicit bias.
Mental health is one of the biggest concerns, because now police are having to handle a lot of really difficult mental health problems on the street.
If we're going to talk about mayors, that under the current mayor [of New York in 2016], crime has continued to drop, including murders.
And not go to things that sound good that really did not have the kind of impact that we would want. Who disagrees with keeping neighborhoods safe?