I've never launched any initiative or campaign that people thought was a slam dunk.

We need to aim high - in the area of 20-25 percent - to create the urgent demand for new technologies, manufacturing plants and green jobs.

In countries where there are real civil wars, people go through a lot, and we should be willing to go through a lot to help them.

You have the Republican Party, who see themselves in their heart of hearts as being a party of colorblind meritocracy. That's their great belief about themselves. And yet somehow you also have a party where a lot of racial resentment and a camp of even neo-Nazis have set up camp in their party. If you point it out to them, they get mad at you, not at the neo-Nazis.

When somebody comes along and says, "I think Washington, DC, sucks," that's not wrong.

There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.

To green our country, regular people will have to put on hard hats and work boots, roll up their sleeves - and get to work.