I want to reassure our NATO allies that if any of them get attacked, we'll be there to defend them.
Almost never does a candidate with high negatives have much of a coattail effect.
Back during the campaign, there were a lot of questions: Is Trump really a conservative? A lot of questions about it.
People are genuinely excited about taking the country in another direction.
A lot of us were wondering, what is Trump really going to be like? He used to support Democrats and have various views earlier in his life about politics.
I do think that the Constitution and the traditions of this country constrain all of us - those of us in Congress and those of us in the White House - from some of our impulses, shall I say, that we'd like to pursue.
We need to bear in mind that we don't have religious tests in this country, and we also need to remember that some of our best allies in the war against Islamic terrorism are Muslims.
I don't think there should be a litmus test on judges, no matter who the president is.
We did the two-year extension of Bush tax cuts in 2010. We negotiated the Budget Control Act in August of 2011 and the fiscal cliff deal at the end of 2012, which saved 99 percent of Americans from a tax increase.
I ran for president of the student council at my high school in Louisville. And ran against a guy who I thought was better known and little bit better student and managed to win.
The people who would call me an obstructionist overlook some inconvenient facts.
No matter how unusual a personality may be who gets elected to office, there are constraints in this country. You don't get to do anything you want to. So I'm very optimistic about America.
America's a land of second opportunities.
Everybody has barriers to overcome, some more than others. I don't want to act like I'm all that unique. America's full of stories like mine. This is a special country with enormous opportunity for those who don't quit.
I just want to remind everybody that this is an extraordinarily resilient country we live in.
I don't think there is any equivalency between the way the Russians conduct themselves and the way the United States does.
We're not Democrats first. We're not Republicans first. We're Americans first. We're patriots first.
As President Obama reminded us, we're all on one team.
Personally criticizing a member of my staff hardly seemed like the way to negotiate a deal.
The majority in the Senate is prepared to restore the Senate's traditions and precedents to ensure that regardless of party, any president's judicial nominees, after full and fair debate, receive a simple up-or-down vote on the Senate floor.
