I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia...The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days.

It requires enormous energy for us to cut the African American uninsured rate by a third. A lot of scars.

Insurance companies, drug companies are going to have to be ponying up, partly because right now they're receiving huge subsidies.

I'm less interested in how we label ourselves. I'm more interested in how we treat each other. And if we're treating each other right, then I can be African-American, I can be multi-racial, I can be you name it, what matters is, am I showing people respect, am I caring for one, for other people.

Young people recognize the big challenges that are coming up.

I'm named Barack Hussein Obama. I'm African-­American.

I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it.