Around the world, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela -- what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It takes more than a single president. It takes more than a single individual.

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

Generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you. But it doesn't say what the state or federal government must do on your behalf.

Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.

I found this national debt doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

And terrorists who seek to harm our citizens will feel the long arm of American justice.

The most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws. Even in the face of repeated mass killings.