I remember having meetings with Republican senators who initially had been trying to engage [Obamacare] but saw that the politics of 'no' were growing inside the Republican Party.

It is very rare I come to an event where I’m like the fifth or sixth most interesting person.

[J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right.

I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

I want my children - I want Malia and Sasha - to understand that they've got responsibilities beyond just what they themselves have done. That they have a responsibility to the larger community and the larger nation, that they should be sensitive to and extra thoughtful about the plight of people who have been oppressed in the past, are oppressed currently.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Call Loretta Lynch for a vote. Get her confirmed. Put her in place. Let her do her job.