I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago].

These days, the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me. Which means orange really is the new black.

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

We are God's partners in matters of life and death.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure... It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies.

The values that we talked about, the values democracy and free speech and international norms and rule of law, respecting the ability of other countries to determine their own destiny and preserve their sovereignty and territorial integrity. Things are not something that we can set aside.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us