I hope you don’t listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern.

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.

A number of countries, including some who have loudly criticized the NSA, privately acknowledge that America has special responsibilities as the world's only superpower, that our intelligence capabilities are critical to meeting these responsibilities, and that they themselves have relied on the information we obtain to protect their own people.

We can't wait for Congress to do its job. So where they won't act, I will.

I think that Mr. Snowden raised some legitimate concerns. How he did it was something that did not follow the procedures and practices of our intelligence community. If everybody took the approach that I make my own decisions about these issues, then it would be very hard to have an organized government or any kind of national security system.

A man who took history in his hands, and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice.

I think [ chief organizer of the Democratic Party ] it's something that I have an interest in.