Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'.

There are 11 million people living in the shadows. I believe they deserve to come out of the shadows. The children who are brought here when they were children, they deserve that kind of consideration as well.

I guarantee you, as president of the United States, I know how to heal the wounds of war, I know how to deal with our adversaries, and I know how to deal with our friends.

I think that it has to be a very humane approach to this issue, and we have to come up with solutions to it. But we also have to do something about the drugs that are coming across our southern border that are killing our kids... I think there are some people who want to leave this country and return to the country they came from, but obviously it requires a broader solution that that, and we all know that.

I am confident, with the leadership and the backing of the American people, President Obama will turn this country around.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

I think I am becoming incapable of being too surprised. But it just makes me sad and sick.