Chancellor [Angela] Merkel is perhaps the only leader left among our closest allies that was there when I arrived. So in some ways we are now the veterans of many challenges over the last eight years.

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.

Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs

I'll remember the view out this window [from Oval Cabinet], because this is where we had our - the playground that we put in when Malia and Sasha came in. Being able every once in awhile to look out the window and see your daughters during the summer, swinging on that swing set, that made the presidency a little bit sweeter.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.