What I don't think we should do is panic, and I don't think we should advocate for ideas and plans that will make things worse.

My father loved to complain about big business and big government, but we had a solid middle class upbringing. We had good public schools. We had accessible health care. We had our little, you know, one-family house that, you know, he saved up his money, didn't believe in mortgages.

We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.

We've got to get back to rebuilding the middle class, the families of America. That's where growth will come from.

I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigration.

There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.

We can do better. ...We can't ignore the inequalities that persist in our justice system that undermine our most deeply held values of fairness and equality.