Generally speaking, people who know me will tell you that my public persona is not that different from my private persona..

We have to have a president who is clear that you don't deal with Russia based on staring into his eyes and seeing his soul. You deal with Russia bas….

When we think about immigration, we have to understand there are folks all around the world who still see America as the land of promise. And they pr….

To try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions on issues that have nothing to do with the budget..

If we [American nation] are only thinking about tomorrow or the next day and not thinking about 10 years from now, we're not going to control our own….

Even on health care what you've seen is a lot of stories surfacing lately about people who said, "Well, I voted for [Donald] Trump but I don't think ….

You might slow down a little bit, you might not jump as high as you used to, but I know what I'm doing and I'm fearless..

I will tell you, when 20 6-year-olds are gunned down and Congress literally does nothing, yeah that's the closest I came to feeling disgusted..

There is a certain percentage of the white population ... if they started having more middle-class black kids who are friends with their kids, eating….

In terms of my conversations with [Vladimir] Putin, these are conversations that took place before the election. As I indicated, there has been very ….

Rather than me sort of characterize the appropriateness or inappropriateness of what Donald Trump is doing at the moment, I think what we have to see….

Chancellor [Angela] Merkel is perhaps the only leader left among our closest allies that was there when I arrived. So in some ways we are now the vet….

Several Americans, unjustly detained by Iran, are finally coming home. In some cases, these Americans faced years of continued detention, and I've me….

Ultimately, I remain optimistic about not just America's future, but the direction that the world is growing..

One of the things that I've urged the president-elect to do is to develop a strong working relationship with the intelligence community and I think i….

One of the great things about our democracy is it expresses itself in all sorts of ways. And that includes people protesting. I've been the subject o….

Try to be as honest as possible..

I think there are a lot of factors going into an election. I think the bottom line is - is that Donald Trump is gonna be sworn in as the 45th Preside….

I don't think Donald Trump is ideological..

The second thing we have to do is to make sure that all of us think about how we approach our elections and our democracy not only to secure them fro….

If you want to get at African American poverty, the income gap, wealth gap, achievement gap, that the most important thing is to make sure that the s….