I can guarantee that not because I give Attorney General [Loretta] Lynch a directive. That is institutionally how we have always operated. I do not talk to the attorney general about pending investigations [On Hillary Clinton].

I think that the Democratic Party is a big tent, which means that there are positions I may not agree with.

I want to make sure that we, as a nation, stay unified because that's how we're going to achieve our missions.

What I want to communicate is the fact that in all my travels throughout the Muslim world, what I've come to understand is that regardless of your faith - and America is a country of Muslims, Jews, Christians, non-believers - regardless of your faith, people all have certain common hopes and common dreams.

The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women

Campaigning is different from governing.

I’m asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington...I’m asking you to believe in yours.