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.

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.

Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

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

And the last thing that I want to see us do is ask more and more of our troops [in Afghanistan ] without guaranteeing that we're providing more and more of what's necessary to make the mission successful.

The moment somebody's a president and you call him "Mr. President," (the person represents) our culture, our history, our sense as our nation.

In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.