Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous

I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready.

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the numbers that rarely shape events. Our long-term interests must be in people and in the values of democracy and individual liberty.