I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.

Why hang out with celebrities when I can hang out with the people who made me one?

We can rattle our sabers all we want but, realistically, we don't have troops for an invasion [Iran] and surgical strikes aren't going to work.

I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating, and I think people are more good than bad, and I think that the possibilities of prog­ress are real.

America, now is not the time for small plans.

But it will depend on young people like you being open to new ideas and new possibilities. And it will require young people like you never to stereotype or assume the worst about other people.

We remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America.