The United States compared to a number of our competitors is the only government in the world with any kind of safeguards, any kind of checks and balances. They may in many respects need to be strengthened and people need to be reassured, and they need to have their protections embodied in law.

Nine million people - nine million people lost their jobs [in 2008]. Five million people lost their homes. And $13 trillion in family wealth was wiped out.Now, we have come back from that abyss. And it has not been easy.

We have to do more about addiction, not only drugs, but also alcohol.

I think that's why I'm so well-suited to this time, because I think the values reflect really profound American values, and I think my agenda would be the best way to really get Americans once again to feel more confident and more optimistic about our future and deliver results, which I think is what it's about.

I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.

In this world and the world of tomorrow, we must go forward together or not at all.

I would want to see the Supreme Court reverse Citizens United and get dark, unaccountable money out of our politics.