“We advanced our priorities and principles. Not every single one of them, but many of them. And then we’re going to pick up next year and pick up where we left off and keep going for more,” he told NBC’s Chuck Todd in an interview on Meet the Press…

“No matter what you do in this job you’re going to get criticized,” he said. “The question is are you focusing on your goals? Are you keeping your principles intact? Are you advancing ideas that make a difference in people’s lives?”