No two countries are identical, and obviously, there's a difference between a referendum on a very complex relationship between Great Britain and the rest of Europe, and a presidential election in the United States.

The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose.

If you like your healthcare plan, you'll be able to keep your healthcare plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.

All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago.

It is true, I worry about the hype. The only person more over-hyped than me is you.

The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether government works.

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.