If I'm president, some day, young kids will look at the world differently. They will say, I could be president some day. They couldn't have said that before I came along. The world will see the United States in a different context, as a country of true opportunity for all.

I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

In 2010 there were a lot of folks who were still out of work. There were a lot of folks who had lost their homes or saw their home values plummet, their 401k's plummet.

America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.

We are running out of time

I'm not so out of touch that I don't see how young people interact today.It was horrific. And that's an example of something that it's not as if that's the first time that a hate crime has taken place in this country. Hate crimes have been taking place for hundreds of years in this country, but it's there on video.