We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.

n case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed.

When it comes to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, I will take no options off the table. ... That includes all elements of American power: a political effort aimed at isolating Iran, a diplomatic effort to sustain our coalition and ensure that the Iranian program is monitored, an economic effort that imposes crippling sanctions and, yes, a military effort to be prepared for any contingency.

Get informed, not by reading The Huffington Post.

We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard.

Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze - a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed.

One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.