Every four minutes, another American home or business goes solar.

As president of the United States, I don't bluff.

We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.

I think that we've had an economy that's been out of balance for too long. So the general principle of raising taxes on higher income Americans, like myself, and providing relief to those who haven't benefited as much from this new global economy, I think is a sound one.

Keep guns out of inner cities-but also problem of morality.

I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating, and I think people are more good than bad, and I think that the possibilities of prog­ress are real.

It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans [in social media] than it is to communicate complex policies.