The biggest threat, when it comes to climate change and pollution, isn't going to come from us because we only have 300 million people. It's going to come from China with over 1 billion people and India with over 1 billion people.

The politics around trade has always been tough, particularly in the Democratic party, because people have memories of outsourcing and job loss.

Arne Duncan is done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else.

When it comes to crime, the violent crime rate in America has been lowered during my presidency and any time in the last three, four decades.

We rise and fall as one people, one nation.

I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.

The two inaugurations were different. The first inauguration I was thinking to myself, "Let's make sure I don't screw this up." I think there is - people always talk about how cool I am. I don't care how cool you are.