I became a lightning rod for some partisan battles. I could not be prouder of the track record we've put together. By almost every measure, the country is significantly better off than when I came in.

We know hackers steal people's identities and infiltrate private e-mails. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets.

Mitt Romney is familiar with jobs being shipped overseas because he invested in companies that were shipping jobs overseas.

We've got to identify new strategies to use cleaner energy, because that is a recipe for reducing the overall amount of pollution that's out there.

If we are truly created equal then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well

Nobody's changing what you've got. You get to keep it.

We can't wait for Congress to do its job. So where they won't act, I will.