We've got to remain energy-independent. It gives us much more power and freedom than to be worried about what goes on in the Middle East. We have enough worries over there without having to worry about that.

Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of story.

If we repeal [ Barack Obama's health care law] as Donald [Trump] has proposed, all of those benefits I have mentioned are lost to everybody...and then we will have to start all over again.

It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one

One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not.

The harder they hit, the more encouraged I get.

When I think about what we need to do, we have 33,000 people a year who die from guns. I think we need comprehensive background checks, need to close the online loophole, close the gun show loophole. There's other matters that I think are sensible that are the kind of reforms that would make a difference that are not in any way conflicting with the Second Amendment.