LGBT Americans are our colleagues, our teachers, our soldiers, our friends, our loved ones, and they are full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship. That includes marriage.

I would say that when you have a big dream or you're trying to solve a big problem, there will always be people who tell you that you can't. Here's my advice: don't listen.

A man you can bait with a Tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.

Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.

It's true that America can't solve every problem, but I don't know of any major problem in the world that can be solved without us.

If men like [Ken] Starr and his allies could ignore the Constitution and abuse power for ideological and malicious ends to topple a President, I feared for my country.

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.