I think that the Democrats can be successful nationally in the future if we are able to capture some of the complexity of people's lives right now.

I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manufacturer's lobby.

With only 2 percent of the world's oil reserves, oil isn't enough. This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy. A strategy that's cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs.

So many of my staff is young enough that they're going to do amazing things. And I'm going to be helping them try to do them.

We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.

It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.

I don't think that there's a hard-and-fast deadline. . . .What we have said all along is that this is not an open-ended process, we are not in this just to talk for talk's sake. . . . We expect prompt, concrete steps to be taken over the next couple of weeks.