After a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999.

They [ Respublicans] wanna argue the sensational which is about abort not certain cases of abortion, but the fact is it's a fundamental disrespect for women - women's judgment about the sizing and time of their families.

The same would be true for something like Social Security, where historically, if you just read the law and the fact that it excluded domestic workers or agricultural workers, you might not see race in it, unless you knew that that covered a huge chunk of African Americans, particularly in the South.

I've got certain responsibilities that I have to carry out in a very specific institution and in a specific moment in time.

The United States, we know what happens when we start dividing ourselves along lines of race or religion or ethnicity.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

I'd like to think that "President Obama believed deeply in this democracy and the American people."