The Democrats have failed to have a real robust message for working-class people in places like Ohio - these states that Donald Trump came in and won.

I have lived my whole life just outside Youngstown, Ohio. We watched the steel mills close and 50,000 jobs disappear in the late 1970s. We watched businesses move overseas throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.

We need a president who doesn't just visit our forgotten communities for rallies but one who lives in them - one who knows the pain and suffering that comes with being unseen and unheard.

Like many Americans, my family and I have spent our entire lives at the epicenter of de-industrialization.

For most of us, starting off in the morning, your iPhone wakes you up, you immediately start checking emails or texts or whatever, and you're up and running until you go to bed.

I think the idea of participating in your own health care and being responsible to the extent you can be of your own health, it seems to me a lot like self-reliance and individual responsibility. This cuts through the partisan divide.

I would think that conserving our natural resources should be a conservative position: Not to waste food, and not to throw away a lot of the food that we buy.

Happiness is found by deeply experiencing the exact moment we are in.

Kids are growing up with a bombardment of information through technology.

Mindfulness helps you to be where you are when you're there. When I'm interacting with constituents who are suffering, that matters.