And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.

Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. Nobody cares if you suffered some discrimination.

After my election there was talk of a postracial America. And such a vision, however well intended, was never realistic.

You Can't Rest on Your Laurels. Your Own Body of Work Is Yet to Come.

I do not talk to the FBI directors about pending investigations [on Hillary Clinton].

The interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel of people. I mean we're all kind of mixed up.

Winston Churchill used to say that we, Americans, try every other option before we finally do the right thing. After everything else is exhausted we eventually do the right thing and I think that's true for Congress as well. And it's important for Americans to remember that politics has always been messy.