The point is ISIL leaders cannot hide. And our next message to them is simple - you are next.

Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to - starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.

I'd say, probably, intellectually I've drawn as much from Judaism as any other faith.

The Affordable Care Act is here to stay.

We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children, who are advantaged, aren't getting more favorable treatment than a poor white kid who struggled more.

The Iranian people are getting restive because of the challenges that sanctions have posed to their economy.

In the campaign back in 2007, 2008, people would say, "Oh, he's being naïve. He thinks that there's no red states and blue states. And wait 'til he gets here." And I will confess that, I didn't fully appreciate the ways in which individual senators or members of Congress now are pushed to the extremes by their voter bases. I did not expect, particularly in the midst of crisis, just how severe that partisanship would be.