I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so.

What makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on earth.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

I've got two daughters and I want to make sure that they have the same opportunities that anybody's sons have. That's part of what I'm fighting for as president of the United States.

My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.

I'm always suspicious of politics dividing people instead of bringing them together.