And it's time as a country that we have an assault weapon ban.

I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.

Every election is different, every context is different. I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president Bill Clinton was important.

We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.

We're proud of the work we're doing to make Chicago a great city for people of all ages. Nothing's more important than keeping in mind the needs of older adults - and how valuable a role they play in improving the city, based on their amazing collective talent and wisdom.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that: it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

At some point, deliberation begins to look more like indecisiveness which then becomes a way of emboldening our enemies and allies and causing our allies to question our resolve. So we shouldn't let one component of this determine our national security here which depends on providing an Afghanistan which denies a safe haven to terrorists as well as stabilizing Pakistan. Those are our two national security interests at stake in Afghanistan.