Based on current surveys of public opinion in the United States, it turns out that the majority of Americans think I've done a pretty good job.

The Cuban people must know that they have a friend and partner in the United States of America.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.

When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.

We've been able to organize the international community around it in ways that aren't going to go back.

The system isn't working when 12 million people live in hiding, and hundreds of thousands cross our borders illegally each year; when companies hire undocumented immigrants instead of legal citizens to avoid paying overtime or to avoid a union; when communities are terrorized by ICE immigration raids -- when nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing, when people are detained without access to legal counsel. When all that's happening, the system just isn't working.

The problem is that because the voucher wouldn't necessarily keep up with health care inflation, it was estimated that this would cost the average senior about $6,000 a year.