Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have long been mum on the latter's potential 2016 presidential bid. But in a Sunday interview, CNN's Fareed Zakaria pushed the former president on the aspirations of a different Democratic sweetheart.

Zakaria invited Clinton to speak about Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), asking whether he believed Warren to be the "future of the Democratic Party."

"I think she's an important part of it," Clinton responded.

Though he didn't acknowledge a potential presidential bid by Warren, Clinton said the senator could find support among the electorate given her commitment to equal opportunity.

“I think the American people are -- the Democrats, at least -- are worried about people having an equal shot at prosperity,” said Clinton.

"You had to have more broad-based prosperity. So, I think anybody who’s arguing for that is going to find a receptive ear in the American electorate, not just among Democrats. I mean, we’re going to have a vote in my native state of Arkansas in raising the minimum wage, and I’ll be surprised if we don’t get a majority of Republicans to vote for it, even though their politicians are, by and large, against it.”