In the fight against ISIL, we cannot rely on an Assad regime that terrorizes its people; a regime that will never regain the legitimacy it has lost. Instead, we must strengthen the opposition as the best counterweight to extremists like ISIL, while pursuing the political solution necessary to solve Syria's crisis once and for all.

There was a time when if you had a financial crisis in Southeast Asia somewhere, it had no impact on our markets. Today it does.

When you see a Donald Trump and a Bernie Sanders, very unconventional candidates, have considerable success, then obviously there's something there that's being tapped into; a suspicion on globalization, a desire to reign in it's excesses, a suspicion of elites and governing institutions that people feel may not be responsive to their immediate needs. And that sometimes gets wrapped up in issues of ethnic identify or religious identity or cultural identity, and that can be a volatile mix.

We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.

For me, personally, the most difficult moments had to do with not just terrorist attacks, but also shootings.

I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of, you know, fat cat bankers on Wall Street.

My abiding faith in the American people is undiminished. That's still what drives me every single day.