I [give] maybe the long-winded speeches that not everybody reads, but I can also do a slow jam on Jimmy Fallon better than most.

The Democrats should not waiver on our core beliefs and principles.

Hillary Clinton has been in politics for the same reason I am - because we can improve other people's lives by doing this work.

Your ability to let go is part of the duty that you have.

China is both an adversary, but also a potential partner in the international community if it's following the rules. So my attitude coming into office was that we are going to insist that China plays by the same rules as everybody else.

The reason I take pride for that is one of the things you worry about when you're in the bubble, and there's all this pomp and circumstance and hail to the chief is, do you lose touch with what you thought was important and what brought you here? And I'm proud that I don't think I have lost touch.

Whatever decisions I make are going to be based first on a strategy to keep us safe and then we'll figure out how to resource it.