This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.

Obama said if elected his government would "harness technology to confront the biggest challenges that America faces".

We must educate our children to become like young Egyptian people.

What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo, in the same place.' And we'll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo.

The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.

There's no reason why Americans should die when Afghans are perfectly capable of defending their own country.

Slowly, but surely, we are moving in the right direction. We're on the right track. The economy is getting stronger