When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.

Democracies don't go to war against each other, and by and large they don't sponsor terrorism. They're more likely to respect the environment and human rights and social justice. It's no accident that most of the terrorists come from non-democratic countries.

I have always believed that the decision to have an abortion generally should be between a woman, her doctor, her conscience, and her God.

I believe we can do much more to adapt to the structural changes in the global economy, get high-end manufacturing back here, set up clusters of economic activity where you have, among other things, continuous retraining of people well into their middle years so they never become irrelevant to the current job market.

We are very frustrated because we have a Supreme Court that seems determined to say that the wealthier have more right to free speech than the rest of us. For example, they say you couldn't stop me from spending all the money I've saved over the last five years on Hillary's campaign if I wanted to, even though it would clearly violate the spirit of campaign finance reform.

You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.

When we give what we can, and give it with joy, we don't just renew the American tradition of giving, we also renew ourselves.