I don't want to make decisions about what I'm eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.

People have to recognize that it’s going to take some time for trust to be built not only between Democrats and Republicans, between Congress and the White House, between the House and the Senate. You know, we’ve had a dysfunctional political system for a while now.

My conviction is that those fights need to be fought right now and can be won. And if in fact we have finite political capital, energy, resources, we need to win those fights.

I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the election.

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.

In the past, there have been a range of treaties that divided Congress and every administration was able to get them through.

We don't really have any kind of regulatory structure at all.