I'm looking for a president that'll be like a Ronald Reagan to a Jimmy Carter.

When I said the city would be stronger, I didn't know that. I just hoped it. There are parts of you that say, 'Maybe we're not going to get through this.' You don't listen to them.

Immigrants are exactly what America needs. They're what we need economically, and I think they're what we need morally... [They] revitalize America and get it back to its sense of confidence... All of these immigrants that come here help us with the work they do, they challenge us with new ideas and new perspectives, and they give us perspective.

Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it's a great demonstration of love. It's really what love is. It's finding areas in which other people are more important than you.

I would appoint judges that interpreted the Constitution rather than invented it, understood the difference between being a judge and being a legislator.

I think people thought that if [Donald Trump] won, he'd win by one state the way that President [George W.] Bush did.

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.