If you like your doctor or health care provider, you can keep them. If you like your health care plan, you can keep that, too.

When the economy is still struggling, putting people back to work, finding ways to spur economic activity, ultimately can help to reduce the structural deficits and debts that countries experience.

What is certainly true is that the United States has to have a presence to promote the values that we care about.

We have to have better intelligence. We have to have better interdiction capabilities. And so the issue is not how much we spend or how hard we try; the issue is are we doing it the right way? Are we being smart about it?

The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam

Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter our differences, we're still one people, part of something bigger than ourselves.

We have to deal with issues like inequality, we have deal with issues of economic dislocation, we have to deal with peoples fears that their children won't do as well as they have. The more aggressively and effectively we deal with those issues, the less those fears may channel themselves into counter-productive approaches that pit people against each other.