Bill Clinton: “It is wrong to deny this man that job because he agrees with the policies of his President on that issue.”

I hope that people will still believe in our democratic system enough to stick with it and keep pushing to make it work.

We've never seen anything like this before in my lifetime – somebody that says, 'Whatever I want should be the law of the land. It's my way or the highway.'

I wish he hadn’t said he wasn’t going to do it.

We have worked to give the American people a smaller, less bureaucratic government in Washington. And we have to give the American people one that lives within its means.