Real democracy means that no group or faction or leader can impose their will, their ideology, their religion, their desires on anyone else.

I'm going to use the White House and every tool at my disposal as your president to make the case that patriotism is profitable.

Do the thousands of people that Donald Trump have stiffed over the course of your business not deserve some kind of apology from someone who has taken their labor, taken the goods that they produced, and then refused to pay them?

Hundreds of thousands of kids now have a chance to be adopted because I worked to change our adoption and foster care system.

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.

If we have a Democratic Senate I think the Republican Party will wake up to the reality that their opposition to comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship is a losing proposition. That Donald Trump's inflammatory rhetoric and derogatory comments do not really work in a national election. And I think we'll have a better chance to actually get something done.

You just have to sort of figure out how to - getting back to that word, "balance" - how to balance the public and the private efforts that are necessary to be successful, politically, and that's not just a comment about today. That, I think, has probably been true for all of our history.