If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.

Our hearts are broken today for the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these children and the families of the adults we lost....May god bless the memory of the victims and in the words of scripture heal the broken hearted and bind up their wounds.

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

If you ask the average person they'd tell ya, "Naw, it's much more dangerous," despite the fact that violent crime has dropped precipitously.

Going through the legislative process is always better, in part because it's harder to undo.