I've got certain responsibilities that I have to carry out in a very specific institution and in a specific moment in time.

When friends are in trouble, America Helps.

In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role.

The problem was, and we saw some of this in the immigration-reform issues as well, was they hadn't done sufficient homework to know that I didn't have all the capacity they thought I did in order to just execute this through the stroke of a pen.

I think the Turks' willingness to take seriously action on the borders to stop the flow of foreign fighters joining ISIL is significant.

Nobody's madder than me about the website not working as well as it should, which means it's going to get fixed.

We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity.