Religious concerns ok, if translated into universal values.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their limits and their self-preservation.

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.

I don't have a philosophical objection, necessarily, to a travel ban if that is the thing that is going to keep the American people safe.

... 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.

It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.