For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

Citizenship means standing up for everyone's right to vote.***

We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning.

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

The president [Barack Obama] laid out his vision for foreign policy in a way that we hadn't heard before. And it could be summed up, I think, in two words - realistic idealism.

We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected. And that's the kind of culture that I think allows all of us, then, to believe what we want. That's freedom of conscience. That's what our Constitution guarantees.

We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help.