When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

I never felt I left the stage.

Obama won the presidency by running the first integrated three-screen campaign - reaching people directly via Internet, cell phones, and TV - with an authentic, complex style that resonated for voters sick of dark, deceitful, and divisive politics.

I am very emotional about politics in a way that makes it hard for me to articulate things in a rational fashion.

I have always adopted nondiscriminatory policies toward the LGBTQ community in my public offices in local and state government.

I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told me, 'They'll praise you on your way up and kick you on your way down.' That wasn't my experience. I can't walk down the street in Toronto without someone coming up and saying hello.