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Unfortunately, dozens of toddlers injure themselves, even kill people with guns, because, unfortunately, not everyone who has loaded guns in their homes takes appropriate precautions.
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Never stop believing that fighting for what is right is worth it.
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Democrats, Republicans, independents, people across America. If you don't vote for me, I still want to be your president.
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I have tried my entire life to do what I can to support children and families.
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The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I think it's a good rule for politics, too.
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If I'm not mistaken, that relationship of Barack Obama with Mr.Bill Ayers on this board continued after 9/11 and after his reported comments, which were deeply hurtful to people in New York and, I would hope, to every American, because they were published on 9/11, and he said that he was just sorry they hadn't done more.
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I voted for every sanction against Iran when I was in the Senate, but it wasn't enough. So I spent a year-and-a-half putting together a coalition that included Russia and China to impose the toughest sanctions on Iran.
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Maybe Donald Trump is just never dealt with somebody who's not particularly impressed by his carrying on, but I'm not. So I'm going to stay focused on what's at stake in this election.
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Yes, we've cut the maternal mortality rate in half, but far too many women are still denied critical access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth, and laws don't count for much if they're not enforced. Rights have to exist in practice - not just on paper.
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When a new president comes in, a new president gets to clean house.
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Part of the reason Donald Trump destroyed his Republican challengers is because they agree with him on issues. And he apparently struck a vein of entertainment among the Republican primary voters, so all they had left was kind of whining and insulting back and forth, as opposed to taking him on where I think a presidential election should.
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I think we've got to look at corporate law. Back in the day when I studied it, there were different constituencies that were to be served, and I think there was a real wrong turn about 20 to 25 years ago when the theory began to be promoted that your highest duty - in fact, some would argue, your only duty - is to maximize shareholder return. I just don't buy it. And it wasn't the original underpinnings of the legal theory of corporate law.
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Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, a guide and pillar of stability for many of our people.
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We've had Muslims in America since George Washington. And we've had many successful Muslims. We just lost a particular well-known one with Muhammad Ali.
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I like to remember what Michelle Obama said in her amazing speech at our Democratic National Convention: When they go low, we go high. And Barack Obama went high, despite Donald Trump's best efforts to bring him down.
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I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.
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Many of the fights that are going on are not ones that the United States has either started or have a role in. The Shia-- Sunni split, the dictatorships that have suppressed people's aspirations, the increasing globalization without any real safety valve for people to have a better life. We saw that in Egypt. We saw a dictator overthrown, we saw Muslim Brotherhood president installed and then we saw him ousted and the army back.
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Donald Trump has a great capacity to use bluster and bigotry to inflame people.He is becoming ISIS's best recruiter.
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It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows.
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The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.
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People are working hard in the USA to make things. And I want to help them do it even more.
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I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.
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We believe strongly that the road to peace and two states living side by side does not go through New York, it goes through Jerusalem and Ramallah.
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Life is not easy for anyone. Sometimes you don't see the challenges on the outside, but every single one of us has both those and everything that goes on inside as well. Give it your all. Dare to be all you can be.