If you like your healthcare plan, you'll be able to keep your healthcare plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.

A nuclear Iran is a threat to America's national security, and it is a threat to Israel's national security. We cannot afford to have a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region of the world.

Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.

I'd like to think that "President Obama believed deeply in this democracy and the American people."

I warn young people that I interact with about this - you get into unrealistic expectations where you think that, "Oh, we're gonna eliminate racism like that. After Obama's elected how could there be any racism?".

My hope would be that, as we're moving through the world right now, we're able to get that psychological or emotional peace by seeing very concretely our kids doing better and being more hopeful and having greater opportunities.

History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.