In a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people. Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country alarmed at one common danger came forth to meet it.

Insist that the first question each of us asks isn't "What's good for me?" but "What's good for the country my children will inherit?

Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you.

As long as I'm president of the United States Iran will not get a nuclear weapon. I made that clear when I came into office.

Some of Donald Trump's gifts that obviously allowed him to execute one of the biggest political upsets in history, those are ones that hopefully he will put to good use on behalf of all the American people.

But what I would say to my successor is that it is important not just to shoot but to aim. And it is important, in this seat, to make sure that you're making your best judgments based on data, intelligence, the information that's coming from your commanders and folks on the ground and you're not being swayed by politics.

Hope - Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope!