What I would like to see is for people to come together and say: Of course we're going to protect and defend the Second Amendment. But we're going to do it in a way that tries to save some of these 33,000 lives that we lose every year.

There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.

You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

I'm reaching out to all Americans - Democrats, Republicans, and independents - because we need everybody to help make our country what it should be, to grow the economy, to make it fairer, to make it work for everyone. We need your talents, your skills, your commitments, your energy, your ambition.

If I remembered when people said mean things about me, I would never speak to the media again.

The first thing is we got to make sure we try to keep guns out of the wrong hands. And I want comprehensive background checks.

Our political press has just been captured by trivia.