American leadership is essential.

I don't want to get into an insult fight with Donald Trump.

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.

We're either going to be dependent on dirty oil from the Gulf or dirty oil from Canada.

The gun epidemic is the leading cause of death of young African- American men, more than the next nine causes put together. So we have to do two things, as I said. We have to restore trust. We have to work with the police. We have to make sure they respect the communities and the communities respect them.

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

I think if we work together, if we overcome the divisiveness that sometimes sets Americans against one another, and instead we make some big goals, there's nothing in my opinion that America can't do.