We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help.

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American.

I would meet directly with the leadership in Iran.

Our enemies are also seeking the abilities to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems.

I don't think that there's a hard-and-fast deadline. . . .What we have said all along is that this is not an open-ended process, we are not in this just to talk for talk's sake. . . . We expect prompt, concrete steps to be taken over the next couple of weeks.

We have reaffirmed again and again that the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam. Islam teaches peace, and when it comes to America and Islam, there is no us and them, there's only us, because millions of Muslim Americans are part of the fabric of our country. So, we reject any suggestion of a clash of civilizations.