We're not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because the ordinary American citizen may not know whether or not this person is illegal or not. But, you know, the notion that we're going to criminalize priests, for example, or doctors who are providing services to individuals, and throw them in jail for doing what their calling asks them to do, which is to provide help and service to people in need, I think that is a mistake. I think that's out of America's character.

And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American.

Our journey is not complete until all our children... know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm.

If there's one thing I would like to see, it'd be for us to be able to price the cost of carbon emissions.

That support has been so constant and gracious and loving. Michelle and I have never felt as if, at any stage, folks didn't have our backs. And as a consequence, I think that just spurred us on that much more to make us want to do the right thing, and do our best in the positions that we have.

I invigorated the grassroots in the Republican Party as well as the Democratic Party.

American politics is always somewhat fluid. In this age of social media, it means that voters can swing back and forth.