None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind of driven, patriotic, idealist Americans to public service that our citizens deserved and that our system of self-government demands.

That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.

I always say that campaigning and governing are two different things.

But shouldn't we also quit marketing murder as a game?

I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria, as well as Iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency: if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.

We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations

Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune.