Arne Duncan is done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else.

There are always going to be some complications.

Health care got done because there were a lot of people out there who aren't professional politicians, but are citizens, who pushed for it even when the politics was hard.

I'm named Barack Hussein Obama. I'm African-­American.

The US and Australia have a lot in common. One of the things we have in common is we produce a lot of carbon.

Our resources may be finite, but our will is infinite, and I am confident that if we come together and summon that great American spirit once again, we will meet the challenges of our time and write the next great chapter in our American story.

My administration will be the most transparent in history