A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now.

We cannot allow internet service providers to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas.

I'm about to embark on what may be as important as an initiative as anything I do as President, trying to nudge the world in the direction of doing something serious about climate change.

If we don’t uphold our Constitution and our values, that over time, that will make us less safe and that will be a recruitment tool for organizations like Al Qaeda. That’s what I have to keep my eye on.

What we've seen at least since 1979 is Iran making constant, calculated decisions that allow it to preserve the regime, to expand their influence where they can, to be opportunistic, to create what they view as hedges against potential Israeli attack in the form of Hezbollah and other proxies in the region.

We can't change the way Washington works unless we first change how Congress works.

We're going to achieve our goal. We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL.