I've been privileged to see the presidency up close. And I know the awesome responsibility of protecting America and the incredible opportunity of working to try to make life better for all of you.

The Russian people deserve free and fair elections. They deserve to have a democracy.

God bless the America we are trying to create.

I still believe that if we stand together with courage in our convictions and love for America, our best days are ahead of us.

I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.

It is a violation of human rights when governments declare it illegal to be gay.

Our largest companies should not be able to get away with paying hardly anything at all. It is insulting when they engage in these games like moving their headquarters over to a foreign country, on paper, not in reality, just to take advantage of lower tax breaks.