America has an ability to try to make some things happen that other countries don't necessarily have.

I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.

I think that too far, too much, to a greater degree than is anywhere near appropriate, America and our politics are being governed by more and more powerful interests, by fewer and fewer people in the sense of the amount of money that has controlled access and other kinds of things.

It's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and you can be wrong.

I heard Katty Kay's name and I know Katty Kay said we didn't have a plan. Well, there is a plan, and the President [Barack Obama] is moving forward with any number of options and ways to augment our efforts on ISIL.

And whatever our faith - whatever our faith, one belief should bind us all: The measure of our character is our willingness to give of ourselves for others and for our country.

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.