I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.

We want to see the Iranians engage, and as you know, we have attempted to bring about that engagement over the course of the last three-plus years. It has not proven effective.

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions.

In an age where there's so much active misinformation and its packaged very well and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television. Where some overzealousness on the part of, you know, a U.S. official is equated with constant and severe repression elsewhere.

You know, in college, I smoked a little pot, did a little blow.

There's just a whole different attitude and vibe when you're not in power as when you're in power.