The federal government has the responsibility to protect the nation's public health, to protect us from foreign threats. And it [Zika] really is an illness that we are seeing arrive from abroad. So it is a threat to public health, and it is the federal government's job to cooperate in this.

No matter where I go or what title I may achieve, I will always be the son of exiles.

The erosion of equal opportunity is among the greatest threats to our exceptionalism as a nation. But it also provides us with an exciting and historic opportunity: to help more people than ever achieve the American Dream.

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.

I run for president because I believe that we can't just save the American dream; we can expand it to reach more people and change more lives than ever before.

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.