You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.

Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges.

And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it.

Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.

John Conyers and I were the ones who wrote the bill that provides for Medicare for all. And, so, even though the single-payer plan is not what's before the Congress, to expand Medicare, so that people 55 and up would be - would have the chance to buy in, that's - that would be a step in the right direction, no question about it.

What we also have to recognize is that the deficit levels that I'm inheriting, over a trillion dollars, coming out of last year, that that is unsustainable. At a certain point, other countries stop buying our debt, at a certain point, we'd end up having to raise interest rates, and it would end up creating more economic chaos and potentially inflation.

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