The problem is that because the voucher wouldn't necessarily keep up with health care inflation, it was estimated that this would cost the average senior about $6,000 a year.

If you were president 50 years ago, the tragedy in Syria might not even penetrate what the American people were thinking about on a day to day basis. Today, they're seeing vivid images of a child in the aftermath of a bombing.

Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.

I am asking my Attorney General to create a special unit of federal prosecutors and leading state attorneys general to expand our investigations into the abusive lending and packaging of risky mortgages that led to the housing crisis. This new unit will hold accountable those who broke the law, speed assistance to homeowners, and help turn the page on an era of recklessness that hurt so many Americans.

There isn't anyone who can't serve ... nobody who can't help somebody else.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Across the globe there are girls who will one day lead nations, if only we afford them the chance to choose their own destinies.