Most people who serve in Washington have been trained either as lawyers or as political operatives--professions that tend to place a premium on winni….

On Syria, it's clear that the indiscriminate attacks on civilians by the [Bashar] Assad regime and Russia will only worsen the humanitarian catastrop….

I think you need to have people around you who can remind you that, actually, what you just said makes no sense. Fortunately, I have my wife to do th….

As you might imagine, if you're a teenager having a couple of people with microphones and guns always following you around, that could grate on them.….

ISIS is not an organization that can destroy the United States. This is not a huge industrial power that can pose great risks to us, institutionally ….

I wouldn't be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago.

We've got to identify new strategies to use cleaner energy, because that is a recipe for reducing the overall amount of pollution that's out there..

One of the great things about being commander in chief is getting to know our men and women in uniform in a very intimate way, whether it's visiting ….

We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason..

And so you [young Americans]need to be the Idea Generation. The generation who's always thinking on the cutting edge, who's wondering how to create a….

So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would ….

We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force..

This kind of inequality - a level that we haven’t seen since the Great Depression - hurts us all. When middle-class families can no longer afford to ….

I'm not the caricature that you see on Fox News or Rush Limbaugh, but I'm somebody who is interested in solving problems and is pretty practical, and….

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values..

I think the Prime Minister is the first to acknowledge that Malaysia's still got some work to do. Just like the United States, by the way, has some w….

What we've seen at least since 1979 is Iran making constant, calculated decisions that allow it to preserve the regime, to expand their influence whe….

We shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women..

When I ran for the U.S. Senate the assumption was that anyone's name that was close to "Osama" doesn't stand a chance. So if somebody thought that ta….

Being attentive to inequality and not tone deaf to it. But offering prescriptions that are actually going to help folks in communities that feel forg….

People are less certain of their national identities or their place in the world. It starts looking different and disorienting. And there is no doubt….