Of course we [with Angela Merkel] discussed our commitment to meeting shared security challenges from countering cyber threats to ensuring that Iran continues to live up to the terms of the Iran nuclear deal.

Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity, until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country.

The program grew out of a desire to address a gap identified after 9/11 ... The program does not involve the NSA examining the phone records of ordinary Americans. Rather, it consolidates these records into a database that the government can query if it has a specific lead - phone records that the companies already retain for business purposes.

We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help.

The greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another

It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.

I attend Trinity United Church of Christ, and my pastor [was] Jeremiah Wright.