You could analyze me and say that my father leaving and being absent was a motivator for early ambition, trying to prove myself to this apparition wh….

There is a big part of me that has a writer's sensibility. And so that's how I think. That's how I pursue truth. That's how I hope to communicate tru….

All I can say is [kids] have turned out to be terrific young women. We were concerned mostly about whether they'd develop an attitude, right?.

What we can do is make sure that Afghanistan is not a safe haven for Al Qaeda. What we can do it make sure that it is not destabilizing neighboring P….

Our job as Americans is to restore that basic bargain that says, if you work hard, if you're willing to meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead….

As I reflect back on what's worked for me in this [presidential] office it's been that I've gotten people who maybe didn't believe in the process to ….

This is my number one priority. I've got a lot of things on my plate. But my top priority is to defeat ISIL and to eliminate the scourge of this barb….

I think what grows the economy is when you get that tax credit that we put in place for your kids going to college. I think that grows the economy. I….

I want people around the world to hear me. To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished. It will not dim the light of the v….

I think it is important that we are targeting HIV/AIDS resources into the communities where we're seeing the highest growth rates. That means educati….

A nuclear Iran is a threat to America's national security, and it is a threat to Israel's national security. We cannot afford to have a nuclear arms ….

[Michelle Obama] used to say to our friends, "Barack's exactly the kind of guy I want to be president. I just wish he didn't want to do it when I was….

If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on….

What has made America the wealthiest, most successful country on Earth historically has been our commitment to education..

The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as….

I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to my job by asking my….

I do think that it is impossible for us to think only in terms of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and not think in terms of what's happening with Sy….

Health care costs generally have gone up at a significantly slower rate since ObamaCare was passed than they did before, which has saved the federal ….

Donald Trump seems to do a good job mentioning his own name..

We think about the enormous costs of homelessness, or the enormous cost of HIV/AIDS, over the long term, as people visit emergency rooms, etc. The mo….

I think that when it comes to Social Security, all of us want to make sure that our senior citizens can retire with dignity and respect. And everybod….