We're opposing Russia's aggression against Ukraine, which is a threat to the world, as we saw in the appalling shoot-down of MH17.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.

You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because they're gay. That's not reflective of who we are.

When the United States stands up for human rights, by example at home and by effort abroad, we align ourselves with men and women around the world who struggle for the right to speak their minds, to choose their leaders, and to be treated with dignity and respect. We also strengthen our security and well being, because the abuse of human rights can feed many of the global dangers that we confront - from armed conflict and humanitarian crises, to corruption and the spread of ideologies that promote hatred and violence.

We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States.

Based on current surveys of public opinion in the United States, it turns out that the majority of Americans think I've done a pretty good job.