When I took on the drug companies and the insurance companies for universal health care coverage, they went after me with a vengeance.

The Congress is not willing to think about the long term. They act like activist shareholders, to use that phrase again. They're not thinking about what can we do that will make us richer, safer, and stronger next year, and the year after, and five and 10 years out.

We have health insurance companies playing a major role in the provision of healthcare, both to the employed whose employers provide health insurance, and to those who are working but on their own are not able to afford it and their employers either don't provide it, or don't provide it at an affordable price. We are still struggling. We've made a lot of progress. Ten million Americans now have insurance who didn't have it before the Affordable Care Act, and that is a great step forward.

I took the unprecedented step of asking that the State Department make all my work-related emails public for everyone to see.

When you are engaged in both trying to kill and capture the enemy and get support from the local population, you have to be always asking yourself, "Is what I'm doing keeping that balance?"

The most important qualification is that the person I pick be ready to become president if something were to happen.

What I want to do is make sure middle class kids, not Donald Trump's kids, get to be able to afford college.