I probably described more times than I can remember how stressful it was advising the President [Barack Obama] about going after Bin Laden.

When you're president, you can't vote present. You have to make a decision. Sometimes it's a split second decision. You don't have time to think about it. You've got to actually decide.

There are things we can do [with violence], and we ought to do it in a bipartisan way.

Being LGBT does not make you less human.

We need to have a tax system that rewards work and not just financial transactions.

You know, Barack Obama is a man of great dignity. And I could tell how much it bothered him and annoyed him that this [birther lie] was being touted and used against him.

I take running for president and being president really seriously. It's a - maybe the toughest job in the world, right? And I knew that there was unfinished business from the successful two terms of President Obama, whom I had served, but that we needed to go further on the economy, on health care, and so much else.