I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn't have to be a drug dealer, they didn't have to be a hoodlum, they didn't have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.

We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.

Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.

There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work. Baltimore is just embarking down this road.

I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

People in the age of [President] Obama don't dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That's for sure.