My job is exhilarating. It's challenging. I find that the governance part of it, the decision making part of it - actually comes - comes pretty naturally. I think I've got a great team. I think we're making good decisions. The the hardest thing about the job is staying focused. Because there's so many demands and decisions that are pressed upon you.
Barack ObamaWe continue to urge China and other claimants to work constructively to resolve these disagreements, so that the South China Sea - which is so vital to the global economy - can be defined by commerce and cooperation.
Barack ObamaSo I think it's important to understand that your duly elected representatives have been consistently informed about exactly what we're doing.
Barack ObamaIf we canโt puncture some of the mythology around austerity, politics or tax cuts or the mythology thatโs been built up around the Reagan revolution, where somehow people genuinely think that he slashed government and slashed the deficit and that the recovery was because of all these massive tax cuts, as opposed to a shift in interest-rate policy - if we canโt describe that effectively, then weโre doomed to keep on making more and more mistakes.
Barack Obama