I'm not sure that the American people are looking for a lot of speeches. I think what they're looking for is action. But one of the things that I do think is important is to be able to explain to the American people what you're doing, and why you're doing it. That is something that I think every great president has been able to do. From FDR to Lincoln to John Kennedy to Eisenhower.

All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.

Mexico is going to need the United States to cooperate in order to rid itself of the violence and corruption that results from the drug trade.

I'm less interested in how we label ourselves. I'm more interested in how we treat each other. And if we're treating each other right, then I can be African-American, I can be multi-racial, I can be you name it, what matters is, am I showing people respect, am I caring for one, for other people.

I think that the Democrats can be successful nationally in the future if we are able to capture some of the complexity of people's lives right now.

There's no one who I believe has ever captured the soul of America more profoundly than Abraham Lincoln has.

I would say that I have been consistent in my broad view of how American power should be deployed, and the view that we underestimate our power when we restrict it to just our military power. We shortchange our influence and our ability to shape events when that's the only tool we think we have in the toolbox.