We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.

On the one hand information is moving quick or the way in which people consume information is changing so fast. Clearly this worked for [Donald Trump], and it gives him a direct connection to a lot of the people that voted for him.

Insurance companies, drug companies are going to have to be ponying up, partly because right now they're receiving huge subsidies.

How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process in the system to surface information and generate options for a president, understanding that ultimately the president is going to be the final decision-maker. That's something that has to be attended to right away.

I think that when it comes to Social Security, all of us want to make sure that our senior citizens can retire with dignity and respect. And everybody has to be open-minded in thinking how do we firm up a system that, in fact, is going to be in difficulty in the coming years.

A low-carbon, clean energy economy can be an engine of growth for decades to come.

Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.