Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.

The very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm.

My hope is that we can get a Republican-Democratic agreement on how we strengthen Social Security as well as looking at some of these other major expenditures that we have that we've got to deal with to make sure that we're not just leaving you guys with a mountain of debt.

The program grew out of a desire to address a gap identified after 9/11 ... The program does not involve the NSA examining the phone records of ordinary Americans. Rather, it consolidates these records into a database that the government can query if it has a specific lead - phone records that the companies already retain for business purposes.

Together, we're going to finish the job we started.

Everyone on my team should be extraordinarily proud of what they have done.

My first job as commander in chief is to keep the American people safe.