People are coming together - Democrats, Republicans, Independents - all of us to reject hate and division.

I want to go after the pharmaceutical companies like Valeant, and Turns that are increasing prices without any regard to the impact on people's health.

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.

Gay people are born into, and belong to, every society in the world. They are all ages, all races, all faiths. They are doctors and teachers, farmers and bankers, soldiers and athletes. And whether we know it or whether we acknowledge it, they are our family, our friends, and our neighbors. Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.

Our challenge is much more pervasive than it would be if we were just facing one enemy in one place. [Instead there is] the Middle East, Iraq, North Korea, Iran. There's a relatively long list that we believe are linked to the al Qaeda network in the Philippines, in Indonesia and in Yemen and other places. That makes it very clear that this is a global network.

We need to make equal pay and equal opportunity for women and girls a reality so women's rights are human rights once and for all.

I don't think we need to have an either/or debate about the use of military force - I think you can be both tough and smart.