We have to work to make sure that our police are using the best training, the best techniques, that they're well prepared to use force only when necessary.

Historically, it is important to try to understand your adversary in order to figure out how they are thinking, what they will be doing, how they will react.

Refraining from violence is not a sign of weakness in one's faith but a sign that one's faith is unshakeable

What I am proposing is that we invest from the middle out and the ground up, not the top down. That is not going to work.

It's important to recognize the vital role that the financial markets play in our economy and that so many of you are contributing to. To function effectively those markets and the men and women who shape them have to command trust and confidence, because we all rely on the market's transparency and integrity. So even if it may not be 100 percent true, if the perception is that somehow the game is rigged, that should be a problem for all of us, and we have to be willing to make that absolutely clear.

I want to congratulate Senator [Bernie] Sanders for the extraordinary campaign.... He has spent his long career in public service, fighting for progressive causes and principles, and he has excited millions of voters, especially young people.

When I talk about how we're going to pay for education, how we're going to invest in infrastructure, how we're going to get the cost of prescription drugs down, and a lot of the other issues that people talk to me about all the time, I've made it very clear we are going where the money is. We are going to ask the wealthy and corporations to pay their fair share.