We're all in this together. That's how we campaigned, and that's who we are. This happened because of you. Thank you.

The map isn't always the territory, and you have to kind of walk through it to get a feel for it.

The one thing I've said to [Donald Trump] directly, and I would advise my Republican friends in Congress and supporters around the country, is just make sure that, as we go forward certain norms, certain institutional traditions don't get eroded, because there's a reason they're in place.

Moral values includes the immorality of 45 million uninsured or the immorality of working people who are having trouble raising a family despite working full-time. That has to be part of the moral equation. And if we are able to frame things in that fashion, then I think we can be successful.

We are a nation of laws.

On issues like Ukraine, on issues like Syria, we've had very significant differences [with Russia].

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.