I know why we're strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it's because there's always been a growing middle class.

You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.

The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able to control the curriculum or intervene in extra-mural speech.

But when I entered politics, I found that this was the space that could be used for making lives of people better.

But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.

National security needs to be priority number one and if you're willing to play politics with our national security then you have no business serving in the Senate or the House.