You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.

I'm here tonight, not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as an optimistic American who understands that we must come together behind the one man who can lead the way forward in these challenging times: my president, our president, Barack Obama!

I was a Republican and I saw the activists and what they were doing, it was intolerable to me.

I've decided to do it, for the pure and simple reason that I just think it's the right thing to do.

DiCaprio left the party with 20 women? I did that in 2012!

Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.

When I was a Republican governor, he was obviously a Democratic president, but on issue after issue after issue, President Obama was very helpful to us in education, in the environment, with the handling of the BP oil spill.