I'm confident that America's foreign policy rebalance to the region will endure beyond my presidency because it's in the national interest of the United States.

For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.

It was young people who stubbornly insisted on justice, stubbornly refused to accept the world as it is that transformed not just the country but transformed the world.

In November [2016], Americans are gonna have to make a decision about what we care about and who we are. We get these spasms of politics around immigration and fearmongering and then our traditions and our history and our better impulses kick in. That's how we all ended up here. 'Cause I guarantee you at some point every one of us has somebody in our background who people didn't want coming here. And yet here we are.

For decades, we've been told that it doesn't make economic sense to switch to renewable energy. Today, that's no longer true.

Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights.

We know what happens when Europeans start dividing themselves up and emphasizing their differences and seeing a competition between various countries in a zero sum way.