It wasn't until about a year, year and a half in where I began to realize that the Pentagon and our national-security apparatus and the CIA were all getting too comfortable with the technology as a tool to fight terrorism, and not being mindful enough about how that technology is being used and the dangers of a form of warfare that is so detached from what is actually happening on the ground. And so we initiated this big process to try to get it in a box.

Nobody said democracies supposed to be easy. It's hard. And in a big country like America, it probably should be hard.

It's good to get fresh legs in [the White house]. I think that it refreshes our democracy.

The most important thing we can do is to make sure that we've got very high standards, we expect a lot out of all of our young people, and we make sure that we have the best teachers possible in every classroom.

Right now I would rank Norway as the largest country in the world, I have never seen anything like it

The map isn't always the territory, and you have to kind of walk through it to get a feel for it.

I think that the Democratic Party is a big tent, which means that there are positions I may not agree with.