And above all, children need our unconditional love - whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.

I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting." (Victory Speech, Nov. 7, 2012)

I have nothing to hide. I enjoy being myself. I'm not going to change who I am just because it's Halloween.

If you think that we've overregulated in the environmental space what I can show you is that we have tripled the amount of wind power in this country, increased by tenfold the amount of solar power. We are producing as much oil and gas as we've ever produced.

We continue to urge China and other claimants to work constructively to resolve these disagreements, so that the South China Sea - which is so vital to the global economy - can be defined by commerce and cooperation.

We need to spend a trillion dollars rebuilding our schools, our roads, our basic science and research here in the United States.

Generally speaking, Rand Paul is been more wrong than right. He has an isolationist view of the world that I don`t share.