For the United States of America, the best is yet to come.

We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity.

Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country.

I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.

A lot of the issues that I see, it is not an either-or situation.

I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria, as well as Iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency: if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.

The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.