As part of the coalition against ISIL, we are putting that terrorist network under tremendous pressure.

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

I just want to repeat that there's nothing that we've proposed that would make it harder for you to purchase a firearm.

Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.

National legislation will prevent other states' flawed concealed-weapons laws from threatening the safety of Illinois residents.

I wouldn't be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago

The incredible story of progress that is America has always been built by those who ask why, what if, and why not. Our schools must begin instilling that wonder in our children again so that their generation will unite around the next great project of our time, whether it be declaring America energy independent or launching the next great technological revolution.