I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.

Muslim leaders around the globe have to continue working with us to decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like ISIL and al Qaeda promote. To speak out against not just acts of violence, but also those interpretations of Islam that are incompatible with the values of religious tolerance, mutual respect, and human dignity.

I can't really characterize any country, except to say that we work well with a number of our foreign counterparts.

Sometimes we take somebody who's been in the trenches and fought the good fight and been steady for granted. Sometimes we act as if never having done something and not knowing what you're doing is a virtue.

The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person.

We are going to trace more effectively, how these guns are ending up on the streets, to unscrupulous gun dealers, who often times are selling to straw purchasers. And cracking down on the various loopholes that exist in terms of background checks for children, the mentally ill.