Quotes

[on Donald Trump's 2016 campaign slogan Make American Great Again]There's a new generation of voices emerging in our country, walking away from the politics of the past and ready to deliver on our priorities. There is no' again' in the real world ; that's not a bad thing, we are ready for a fresh start.

The DNC is always vulnerable to this gravitational force that makes it treat the presidency like it's the only office that matters.

My marriage to Chasten has made me a better man. And yes, Mr. Vice President, it has moved me closer to God, that's the thing I wish the Mike Pences of the world would understand : That if you have a problem with who I am, your quarrel is not with me. Your quarrel, sir, is with my creator.

If you grew up during that Cold War period, then you saw a time in politics when the word socialism could be used to end an argument, today, I think a word like that is the beginning of a debate, not the end of a debate.

My generation is the generation that experienced school shootings beginning when I was in high school, the generation that fought in the post-9/11 wars, the first generation to have to deal with the reality of climate change, and the first generation not to be better off than our parents materially - if nothing changes, only a forward focus un-tethered from the politics of the past and anchored by our shared values - can change our national politics and our nation's future.

We see how often war and terrorism are driven by the dynamics of globalization, the distribution of wealth and the consequences of technology. Like laws of physics, these forces are animating our affairs all along - which should have been no surprise to people from a place like South Bend, a city wrestling such forces long before newspapers gave us terms like 'globalization' and 'rust belt'.

One thing about my marriage is that it's never involved me having to send hush money to a porn star for cheating on my spouse.

I am not looking forward to a scenario where it comes down to Donald Trump with his nostalgia for the social order of the 1950s and Bernie Sanders with a nostalgia for the revolutionary politics of the 1960s.

You could argue that it doesn't get more different from this President than a laid back intellectual young gay mayor from the Midwest. [May 2020]

[During the 2020 Democrat debate at Texas Southern University in Houston]The President clearly has no strategy, you know when I first got into this race, I remember President Trumped scoffed and said he'd like to see me make a deal with Xi Jinping, I'd like to see him a deal with Xi Jinping, is it just me or is that suppose to happen in like April? It's one more example of a commitment not made

[responding when Donald Trump called him "Alfred E. Neuman"] I had to Google that, I guess it's a generational thing.