There are few things in life that are harder to find and more important to keep than love. Well, love and a birth certificate.

Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.

I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.

The reason we're governing right now is because we defeated moderate Republicans with moderate Democrats. And people need to be patient about that and realize that compromise is not evil.

Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he's also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher.

I think I was able to talk to people about values in ways that people - in ways that resonated with folks.

Chancellor [Angela] Merkel is perhaps the only leader left among our closest allies that was there when I arrived. So in some ways we are now the veterans of many challenges over the last eight years.