You now have the potential of 200 people deciding who ends up being elected president every single time.

It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy

We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.

The conversations have been cordial. [Donald Trump] has been open to suggestions, and the main thing that I've tried to transmit is that there's a different between governing and campaigning, so that what he has to appreciate is as soon as you walk into this office after you've been sworn in, you're now in charge of the largest organization on Earth.

We are in what we hope is an intensive diplomatic phase now. It will not be open-ended.

That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door.

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.