I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.

I want to make sure that we, as a nation, stay unified because that's how we're going to achieve our missions.

There have been times where, let's say on LGBT issues, when we were trying to end Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and I got the Pentagon and Bob Gates, a Republican holdover from the [George W.] Bush administration, to authorize a study of how you might end Don't Ask, Don't Tell, headed up by Jeh Johnson, who at that time was a council to the Justice Department. And it was going to take a year to conduct that study, issue a report, and figure out how it might be implemented, what effect it would have on unit cohesion and military effectiveness.

A little reminder to those who don't back Obama and gay marriage. It's probably cause you're gay.

Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs

Too often, we have failed to enforce international norms when it's inconvenient to do so.

David [Cameron] has been an outstanding friend and partner on the global stage and, based on our conversation, I'm confident that the UK is committed to an orderly transition out of the EU.