In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

ISIS is not an organization that can destroy the United States. This is not a huge industrial power that can pose great risks to us, institutionally or in a systematic way. But they can hurt us. And they can hurt our people and our families.

By 2016, the people who had looked to [Barack] Obama for change were looking somewhere else.

The friendship that we established early on in our marriage ... that carries you through tough times. That and a good sense of humor.

We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted Islam.

You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.