Acting alone, minorities can never achieve the majorities necessary for political change.

When I went off to college, I went believing I was a Republican. And actually I was president of Young Republicans for a couple of months and then I decided that I was much more in the camp of people like, you know, President Johnson - trying to promote civil rights, voting rights, ending poverty.

You don't insult American Muslims and religiously profile them the way that has been suggested by Ted Cruz.

Like being a woman, like being a racial religious tribal or ethnic minority, being LGBT does not make you less human. And that is why gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights.

You never know in retrospect whether you did or didn't do exactly the right thing, stay-at-home mothers, gone-away mothers, all ofus worry whether we should have done something differently than we did.

Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.

We finally are where we need to be. We have a strategy and a commitment to go after ISIS.