“You know, my view is that we have a big world out there.”

I have many, many old friends, and I always think that it`s important, when you get into politics, to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what`s on their minds.

We’ll hold out our hand; they have to unclench their fist.

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions

I really do hope that we have a woman president in my lifetime.

I always run inclusive and successful organisations.

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy – as well as in an individual’s life – is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

Don’t let anybody tell you that it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs.

Don’t confuse having a career with having a life.

Gay rights are human rights.

Americans need a champion and I want to be that champion.

You have to be true to yourself.

It should never be a crime to be gay.

I’m running for president because everyday Americans and their families need a champion, and I want to be that champion. I want to make the words middle class mean something again.

Over the years, we have lost millions of decent paying jobs. These trade agreements have forced wages down in America so the average worker in America today is working longer hours for lower wages.

I am all about new beginnings. A new grandchild, another new hairstyle, a new email account. Why not a new relationship with the press?

No nation can meet the world’s challenges alone.

Used to tell me the sky’s the limit, now the sky is our point of view.

When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.

Try honest to see things from the other person’s point of view.

Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view that God’s on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things that otherwise would be called satanic.

Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person’s viewpoint.

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

A year ago everything started to change. I didn’t think I could come out on the other side. The view is fine. I’m fine. Better now.

Anyone who claims that all religions are the same betrays not only an ignorance of all religions but also a caricatured view of even the best-known ones. Every religion at its core is exclusive.