I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.

We're making progress. Our military is assisting in Iraq. And we're hoping that within the year we'll be able to push ISIS out of Iraq and then, you know, really squeeze them in Syria.

Donald Trump would end up raising taxes on middle-class families.

We're working with our friends in the Middle East, many of which, as you know, are Muslim majority nations.

Real democracy means that no group or faction or leader can impose their will, their ideology, their religion, their desires on anyone else.

I don't think the police, even if we train them, can be, you know, as good as psychologists and psychiatrists and others knowing what is happening to somebody. So we've got to have a more coherent, comprehensive approach.

Corporations and businesses [don't] create jobs.