I think there should be national standards on the use of legal force.

From her concession speech: Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it...You can be so proud that, from now on, it will be unremarkable for a woman to win primary state victories, unremarkable to have a woman in a close race to be our nominee, unremarkable to think that a woman can be the President of the United States. And that is truly remarkable.

The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation

People like Donald Trump can take all the money that's made from a TV show, from selling neckties made in China, running golf courses, and wipe out that income for tax purposes with depreciation. Only a narrow segment of people qualify for this.

We can build a new modern electric grid. That's a lot of jobs; that's a lot of new economic activity.

We've got to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system.

You're not always going to make the right decisions, but you have to be guided by what you think is important.