... the fact is it didn't happen in the first month, the first six weeks, in a way that was at all acceptable. And since I'm in charge, obviously, we screwed it up.

Part of what's changed in politics is social media and how people are receiving information.

I'm not the caricature that you see on Fox News or Rush Limbaugh, but I'm somebody who is interested in solving problems and is pretty practical, and that, actually, a lot of the things that we've put in place worked better than people might think.

What is certainly true is that the United States has to have a presence to promote the values that we care about.

Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution.

I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are ... Not this time. Not now.

Every life must be given the chance to realize its full potential - that every life matters.