It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.

I want to rebuild America.

We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize.

I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.

There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.