You don't know how it would have turned out if [kids] would grown up in Chicago instead, and a more normal environment.

If I did not love America, I wouldn't have moved here from Kenya.

Honestly this is not going to change unless the people who want to prevent these kinds of mass shootings from taking place feel at least as passionate, at least as mobilized and well-funded as the NRA and the gun manufacturers are because the politics in Congress are such where even members of Congress who know better are fearful if they vote their conscience and support common sense measures like background checks, they're worried they're going to lose.

Nobody's changing what you've got. You get to keep it.

The fact that there is a robust debate in Congress is good. The fact that the debate sometimes seems unanchored to facts is not so good.

I think that dealing with guns is one way to handle the violent-crime issues that we have in this country.

Around the world, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela -- what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It takes more than a single president. It takes more than a single individual.