Nothing matters if we aren't safe.

I've seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists.

What I'm not - I can't control other people's campaigns. If they decide that's what they want to do with their time and money, they certainly have a right to do it.

The terrorists that attacked us in San Bernardino was an American citizen, born and raised in this country. And I bet you we wish we would have had access to five years of his records so we could see who he was working with...

I don't buy into the dystopian scenarios of self-aware robots enslaving mankind, but you don't have to be a sci-fi conspiracy theorist to acknowledge that plenty of good, well-paying jobs are being taken over by machines.

Every generation in America has faced the same question, do we we want America to be special? Or do we just want America to be another country? The time has come again.

We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story.