The United States has been a Pacific nation for over two centuries. That's not going to change.

We will send an additional 475 service members to Iraq. As I have said before, these American forces will not have a combat mission - we will not get dragged into another ground war in Iraq. But they are needed to support Iraqi and Kurdish forces with training, intelligence and equipment.

The problem is that, over time, big pieces of business that have to get done without leadership from Washington, don't get done.

My particular worries on any given day - how I'm doing in the polls or what somebody is saying about me... for good or for ill - isn't particularly relevant. What is relevant is: What am I building that lasts?

Women can't wait for equal pay. And I won't stop fighting to address this inequality.

We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.