What is the empathy deficit? The inability of people to stand in other folks shoes. It's hard to empathize with people who have different values than you

Effective immediately, we will only pursue phone calls that are two steps removed from a number associated with a terrorist organization instead of three.

As long as countries like China keep going all in on clean energy, so must we.

The Internet and Twitter and all these things are very powerful, but it also means sometimes that instead of having a dialogue we just start calling folks - calling each other names. And that's true on the left or the right.

On issues like Ukraine, on issues like Syria, we've had very significant differences [with Russia].

One of the great qualities of Chancellor Merkel is that she is steady. She analyzes a situation. She's honest. Sometimes we've had disagreements, but when we do, it's very constructive. And we are consistently open with each other about how we should approach these issues.

We know that education is everything to our children's future. We know that they will no longer just compete for good jobs with children from Indiana, but children from India and China and all over the world.