No matter how much you've done, or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.

The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.

We've come to be consumed by a 24-hour, slash-and-burn, negative ad, bickering, small-minded politics that doesn't move us forward. Sometimes one side is up and the other side is down. But there's no sense that they are coming together in a common-sense, practical, nonideological way to solve the problems that we face.

Internationally, I have obviously been deeply concerned about how we fight the terrorist threat.

This is American leadership at its best: We stand with people who fight for their own freedom, and we rally other nations on behalf of our common security and common humanity.

I said this right after the election - we have to remind ourselves we're on the same team. Vladimir Putin's not on our team.

We have to create that bridge for the future. And that means making sure we're paying attention to the wages of workers in countries, making sure that we're investing in their education and their skills.