It's time to put country ahead of party. It's time to put the next generation ahead of the next election.

What we have to do moving forward is to make sure that small businesses that account for most of the job growth in our economy are getting the kind of financing that they need.

The politics around trade has always been tough, particularly in the Democratic party, because people have memories of outsourcing and job loss.

One of the interesting things about being in public life is there are constantly these pressures being placed on you from different sides. To be effective, you have to be able to listen to a variety of points of view, synthesize viewpoints.

The truth is that, in trying to get at terrorists who are in countries that either are unwilling or unable to capture those terrorists or disable them themselves, there are a lot of situations where the use of a drone is going to result in much fewer civilian casualties and much less collateral damage than if I send in a battalion of marines.

I think that what is true is that the Russians intended to meddle, and they meddled. And it could be another country in the future.

We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected.