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

As I reflect back on what's worked for me in this [presidential] office it's been that I've gotten people who maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged. Ironically, I've even gotten the other side that maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged.

I went through six years of battles on health care because I didn't have $100 million worth of advertising saying how it would never work.

For me and Michelle, this visit has therefore held special meaning. Throughout my life, including my work as a young man on behalf of the urban poor, I have always found inspiration in the life of Gandhiji and in his simple and profound lesson to be the change we seek in the world. And just as he summoned Indians to seek their destiny, he influenced champions of equality in my own country, including a young Martin Luther King

Shaykh Bin Bayyah described his purpose. We must declare war on war so the outcome will be peace upon peace.

I do not believe being gay or lesbian is a choice.

For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president.