We are a great nation because we are a good people.

You ready to go to work?

America is going to have to choose between moving forward or backward, between hope and hate, between unity and division.

Over the next six months, I'll be focused on doing my job as president. That means I will continue to lower costs for hardworking families and grow our economy. I'll keep defending our personal freedoms and our civil rights from the right…

He has really extraordinary career and this is his opportunity to take some of that narrative back.

I want to say to the team, embrace her. She's the best. I wanted to call everybody, everybody on this effort. I know yesterday's news is surprising and it's hard for you to hear. But it was the right thing to do.

We've already turned around. Look, look at the Michigan survey, for 65 percent American people think they're in good shape economically. They think the nation's not in good shape, but they're personally good shape. The polling data has…

I look forward to getting back on the campaign trail next week.

These are charges that the U.S. calls baseless.

Joe Biden has said many, many times, he's going to be the nominee.

Let’s remember, here in America, while unity is the most elusive of goals right now, nothing is more important for us now than standing together.

We owe that to those who come before us, to those who gave their lives for this country. We owe it to ourselves. We owe it to our children and our grandchildren.

There's no place in America for this kind of violence. It's sick. It's sick. It's one of the reasons why we have to unite this country.

Politics must never be a literal battlefield and, God forbid, a killing field.

The power to change America should always rest in the hands of the people, not in the hands of a would-be assassin.

We cannot — we must not go down this road in America. We’ve traveled it before throughout our history. Violence has never been the answer.

It cannot be tolerated. This has to end.

I urge everyone, everyone, please, don't make assumptions about his motives or his affiliations. Let the FBI do their job and their partner agencies do their job.

But in America, we resolve our differences at the battle box. You know, that's how we do it, at the ballot box, not with bullets.

We cannot, we must not go down this road in America.

He talked about the tenets of democracy and the need to continue the discussion and the real debate using words and not anything else, and focusing on the end goal, which is November and the ballot box.

My fellow Americans, I want to speak to you tonight about the need for us to lower the temperature in our politics, and to remember, while we may disagree, we are not enemies. We're neighbors. We're friends, coworkers, citizens. And most…

There is no place in America for this kind of violence or for any violence ever. Period. No exceptions. We can't allow this violence to be normalized.

I've said it many times that the choice in this -- we make in this election is going to shape the future of America and the world for decades to come.

There is no place in America for this kind of violence. It’s sick. It’s sick. Everybody, everybody, must condemn it.