There isn't anyone who can't serve ... nobody who can't help somebody else.

To try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions on issues that have nothing to do with the budget.

As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course.

The United States has to go through structural reforms in terms of improving our education system or revamping our infrastructure or, you know, looking at some regulations that weren't properly controlling excesses on Wall Street.

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.

America is the greatest country on Earth. But because of some of the mistakes that have been made, we, I think, are going to have a lot of work to do in the next administration to restore that sense that America is that shining beacon on a hill.