The American people are going to have a good choice.

... the fact is it didn't happen in the first month, the first six weeks, in a way that was at all acceptable. And since I'm in charge, obviously, we screwed it up.

I will support Iraqis and Syrians fighting to reclaim their communities.

I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia...The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days.

I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be.

Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blackburg and Santa Barbara, and from high schoolers at Columbine. And, and from first graders in Newtown, first graders.

What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice. He's much more of a sounding board for me to make sure that I am speaking as truthfully about what I believe as possible and that I'm not losing myself in some of the hype and hoopla and stress that's involved in national politics.