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

Such pushy people, the school union chiefs.It's almost not worth the campaign donations. Almost.

It wasn't until 1998 that I ever seriously thought about running for office. And I didn't make up my mind to do that until 1999, and then I ran for the Senate. It was really hard for me.

You can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorists sites, and what Donald Trump says about Muslims is used to recruit fighters, because they want to create a war between us.

We can build a new modern electric grid. That's a lot of jobs; that's a lot of new economic activity.

He ran a gas station down in St. Louis. No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century.

When I spend my time out on the campaign trail, it's usually about what I can do for somebody else. I don't like talking about myself, I don't like the whole atmosphere of how people are judged in American politics too often as to what you say instead of what you do. And so for me it's always about what can I do for you? How can I help you?