It's hard to anticipate. I can tell you what I'm feeling right now is that I'm busier than I expected these last two weeks. A great deal of emotion around the people that I've worked with and the gratitude I feel for the sacrifices they've made on behalf of the American people, but also on behalf of me personally.

Islam has always been a part of America’s story.... And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States.

This is our first task-caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That's how, as a society, we will be judged.

[The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth.

I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting." (Victory Speech, Nov. 7, 2012)

The silence killed your faith.

I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.