Our environment is too important to neglect and it's time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises.

Clem (Clementa Pinckney) understood that justice grows out of recognition of ourselves, in each other.

One of my strengths is I have a pretty even temperament. I don't get too high when it's high and I don't get too low when it's low. And what I found during the course of the presidency, and I suppose this is true in life, is that investments and work that you make back here sometimes take a little longer than the 24-hour news cycle to bear fruit.

A nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.

One of the proudest things of my three years in office is helping to restore a sense of respect for America around the world.

Legislatively, the thing I'm most proud of is healthcare, and I will continue to be most proud of it because not only do we have 30 million people who are going to get healthcare, we've got six million young people who are able to stay on their parents' plan until they're 26.

I believe, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., that there is such a thing as being too late, and when it comes to climate change, that hour is almost upon us.