I really don’t care what Patrick J. Toomey says or does because Patrick J. Toomey couldn’t get reelected in Pennsylvania, and that’s why he‘s out.

I moved to Braddock in 2001 and started a program to help local youth earn their GED and find jobs.

From partisan gerrymandering and unlimited corporate money flooding our elections to voter suppression legislation, the Republican Party, aligned with Trump, has waged a war on our democracy.

We’ve made some incredible progress, but there are still steps we need to take to ensure LGBT Americans are treated as equal citizens.

I have said this before. Donald Trump is very popular in Pennsylvania. We cannot afford to underestimate his popularity in our state. And I have emphasized that continuously.

I am so proud to be the Mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania – a storied steel town I like to say built half the world.

You can’t lock away a problem and throw away the key. I don’t know if it’s an unpopular view or a popular view, but it’s the truth.

In PA, the Lieutenant Governor serves as the Chair of the Board of Pardons. That means that I sit as the head of our five-person board, where we hear testimony and process applications for pardons and sentence commutation.

I was one of the only Democrats that was warning just how popular Trump would be.

We can’t say, ‘Science, science, science,’ and then say, ‘Except in unrealistic climate talking points.’

The fact that somebody that looks as unfortunate as I do sometimes would be an American taste god by the Bible of American taste, you know, I didn’t see that coming!

On my left arm, I have the zip code 15104. That’s Braddock, Pennsylvania, my home and the community I was honored to serve as mayor for 15 years.

You’re guaranteed to have outcomes you like and outcomes you don’t like in a democracy.

We all can’t learn how to code when, you know, we’re 50 years old.

Discretion is the most powerful tool a police officer carries on the beat, because an appropriate level of discretion can short-circuit the use of lethal force. Discretion and de-escalation measures are pro-community, pro-police, and create more trust while making everyone safer.

I’m proud that my family and I live across the street from a steel mill and a union hall. This is where my wife and I want to raise our family, not in a mansion.

My life has been, you know, immeasurably enriched by my wife and her family and her immigration story.

I’m certainly not above the law.

It’s not a radical statement: all of us should agree that we want to make sure that weapons stay out of the hands of people that could use them to hurt others, especially after the tragedies we’ve seen in Charleston, Newtown, Wilkinsburg and too many other communities.

In my years in public service, I have advocated for reforms to our unforgiving and vindictive legal system.

A place deserves somewhere to eat lunch.

I mean, there’s certainly unreachable people in either party that will never vote Democrat or Republican. That’s a fact.

Once one of the most important steel manufacturing centers in the world, Braddock – what’s left of it – solemnly affirms one of the great economic maxims of our society: socialism for the rich, and capitalism for the poor.

Being completely neutral, Joe Biden would be all but impossible for Trump to beat.

I will never tweet out anything that Twitter has to slap a warning on like a pack of cigarettes.

I would implore any ‘Bernie or Bust‘ supporter that we can’t let this country go the way of Donald Trump.

I believe that one bad decision should not define a person.

I’m so happy about Biden. I love a boring president. It’s such a relief. You just have so much more confidence in our government.

As a Democrat, I would just hate to be in a position of only being able to accomplish what Mitch McConnell allows us to.

You can’t litigate math.

I never said I could save Braddock. It’s not about me. It was never even just about Braddock. It was a metaphor. Places like this matter.

How can we let students go to school everyday in an environment where they’re afraid to be verbally or physically bullied? We are better than this, which is why we need to keep moving forward.

The grip of the NRA is so suffocating in Washington that politicians are too afraid of the gun lobby to pass even the most sensible reforms, like universal background checks.

There isn’t a more strident supporter of Bernie than I am.

I have plenty of relationships with progressive groups. And I’ve run as a progressive before it was cool to do so.

You’re to the right of Hobby Lobby if you don’t support $15. Hobby Lobby recognized that you got to pay people $15 an hour. So if Hobby Lobby gets it, and you don’t as a Democrat, what’s your problem, you know?

Climate change is real, and we need to work on a comprehensive approach. We eliminated sulfur dioxide in the air, and got rid of acid rain. We got rid of lead in gasoline. You can achieve these things when the private and public sectors work together.

I’m a GQ fashionista, imagine that? I don’t take it seriously.

I do not look like the normal politician. I don’t even look like a normal person.

I was an unplanned pregnancy between two teenagers in Reading, Pennsylvania, and they ended up getting married. They started out struggling.

You know, all work has dignity. I fundamentally believe that. So all paychecks must have dignity.

Republicans need to get honest about confronting climate, but Democrats need to get honest about energy.

Yeah, I’m quiet and introspective.

It’s ludicrous that someone can be fired from their job, refused care at a hospital or denied housing because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

The government shouldn’t be in the business of subsidizing a business by allowing people to be paid starvation wages.

We use art to combat the dark side of capitalism.

I’m in the camp that says that if you’re to the right of South Dakota on anything, you should use that as a moment to recalibrate your core values.

Unions sustained and fed the middle class. It’s no coincidence that as union membership has continued to dwindle, so have the fortunes of the middle class.

We need to get people excited about living in Braddock again. For D.I.Y.-ers, this town is a dream.

I’ve said to workers that I don’t care what you agree with me on politically – I hope it’s as many things as possible – but one thing that you and I absolutely agree on is that your right to organize, your right to a good wage, your right to benefits, your right to participate in the value that your hard work creates.

If you think that people can change… and, if they’ve grown and they’ve expressed contrition or regret, that they should be given a chance, then you should vote for me.

For a lot of people, most of their exposure to politics and politicians involves events on the campaign trail, interviews on cable news, or seeing a viral tweet here or there. But day to day, there’s so much more than anyone sees.

I know I am not Braddock’s savior, never felt that way, and never will. There’s no ‘Rudy‘ style ending waiting for me where I get carried off the field and everything turns out O.K. for me or for Braddock.

We should transition away from carbon-based fuels, but that is not something that you can just flip a switch metaphorically, no pun intended, and start immediately like banning fracking. It’s a transition.

The truth doesn’t need a label. It’s the truth.

In fact, I’ve been around guns for most of my life.

The Black Lives Matter movement has brought to the national conversation many of the inequalities I’ve worked to confront here in Braddock. I’m so grateful it has because we need to realize that as far as the way America treats African-Americans, black lives don’t matter in this country.

Whether it’s leaders from my own town of Braddock or leaders across the state in Bucks County or Adams County, I’m committed to always working with and listening to local elected leaders.

I don’t mean to look scary, it’s just kind of what I have to work with. Maybe that’s why my tattoos are literally the first thing people Google about me.

Universal background checks and closing existing loopholes can prevent prohibited purchasers, such as convicted felons, the dangerously mentally ill and domestic abusers from accessing guns.