When friends are in trouble, America Helps.

Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds

For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change.

Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.

There is a wide range of views within the Jewish community, so it's not monolithic.

I have complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors from New York who specialize in terrorism.

It's one of the biggest benefits of being president that you really don't think about until you get here.