The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response

We can be civil to each other, and we can try to express ourselves acknowledging that we're all patriots, we're all Americans, and not assume the absolute worst in people's motives.

We stand with women by fighting for economic security, protecting access to health care and supporting women's leadership across the country

As the world's largest economy and second-largest carbon emitter, as a country with unsurpassed ability to drive innovation and scientific breakthroughs, as the country that people around the world continue to look to in times of crisis, we've got a vital role to play. We can't stand on the sidelines. We've got a unique responsibility.

What we also have to recognize is that the deficit levels that I'm inheriting, over a trillion dollars, coming out of last year, that that is unsustainable. At a certain point, other countries stop buying our debt, at a certain point, we'd end up having to raise interest rates, and it would end up creating more economic chaos and potentially inflation.

We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.

For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.