I have the authority to address the threat from Isil, but I believe we are strongest as a nation when the president and Congress work together. So I welcome congressional support for this effort in order to show the world that Americans are united in confronting this danger.

I have no patience with people who go around blowing up innocent people.

Internationally, I have obviously been deeply concerned about how we fight the terrorist threat.

We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected.

I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

People are very hungry for something new. I think they are interested in being called to be a part of something larger than the sort of small, petty, slash-and-burn politics that we have been seeing over the last several years.

You mention the Navy, for example, and the fact that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.