I think what President [Barack] Obama has done is to chart a steady course. When I was there, the first four years we had a lot of cleanup to do. We inherited a lot of bad feelings from the [George W.] Bush administration, and much of what I spent my time doing was traveling around the world reassuring friends and allies.

Standing up for America, investing in America, will pay off.

I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute.

What the champions of suffrage understood was that the vote is not just a symbol of our equality, but that it can be, if used, a guarantee of results.

I have, ever since the first day of my campaign, called for criminal justice reform.

The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I think it's a good rule for politics, too.

The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation